World War Three? North Korean submarine ‘goes missing’ as US and South Korean soldiers carry out amphibious landing exercises
American and South Korean troops practice dramatic beach landing, simulating invasion of North Korea
The ‘non-provocative’ exercises involved about 17,000 American troops and more than 300,000 South Koreans
The North has denounced the exercises as ‘nuclear war moves’ and threatened to respond with an all-out offensive
By TOM WYKE
DailyMail.com
12 March 2016
North Korea has been searching for one of its submarines that has been missing for days off its east coast as tensions mount in the region, where U.S. and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise today.
The submarine may be adrift under the sea or have sunk, perhaps after a technical problem during an exercise, CNN quoted U.S. officials with intelligence of secret U.S. monitoring of the North’s activities as saying.
The missing submarine comes after North Korea has said it is developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles although doubts about that were raised after Western experts said publicly released footage of tests appeared to be fake.
Following Kim Jong-Un’s ballistic missile launch claims, US and South Korean troops practised storming simulated North Korean beach defences on the east coast.
The landing and assault drills on South Korea’s east coast were part of eight weeks of joint exercises and are believed to be the largest exercises between the two allies. The North has denounced the exercises as ‘nuclear war moves’ and threatened to respond with an all-out offensive.
Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with a long-range rocket launch last month, triggering new U.N. sanctions.
About 55 U.S. marine aircraft and 30 U.S. and South Korean ships, including the USS Bonhomme Richard and USS Boxer, which carry AV-8B Harrier attack jets and V-22 Osprey aircrafts, took part in the assault on beaches near Pohang city, the U.S. navy said.
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