Captured North Korean Submarine

A look into the grounded and captured North Korean Submarine at Gangneung Unification Park in Gangneung City, South Korea. The sub and it's crew were on a spying mission of the South Korean defenses in 1996, when it crashed on the rocky shore in rough seas. The crew set fire to the sub to destroy evidence, then fled ashore to fight a guerrilla battle with the South Korean Army. The battle lasted forty-nine days, during which one of the North Korean submariners was captured, and the rest were killed. Eleven South Korean soldiers were killed in the battle, and twenty-two were injured. Six South Korean civilians were killed. The South Korean Navy salvaged the sub, and it is now on display. For more information on our visit to the sub, go to: www.thetaoofohare.blogspot.com/2010/05/gangneung-unification-park-and-new.html.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Submarine
• North Korea
• South Korea
• Korean Re-Unification

[0HARE]

I also thought that the side doors were a later addition, to facilitate tourists. There would have been no use for side doors in actual operation.

[dockbillin]

It's a short-range sub used for coastal defence and infiltration. It's got the equipment it needs to fulfil its design parameters. It doesn't need the equipment carried by a nuclear submarine patrolling the ocean depths, so it doesn't have it. Simple and effective.

[fatezor]

Geez looks even shittier then what was being used by germans and americans during world war 2, Russian subs from the 60's and 70's are way more sophisticated than this.

[mace085]

cool lego set

[XL290]

They missed the electronics on the left across from the galley.

[seoulkidd1]

looks like and old russian design

[MrScotia]

Looks like something Wilma Flintstone would put her washing into.

[TheLiberalTurkey]

nice submarine

[p2daman]

I get claustrophobic just looking at the interior of that hunk of scrap that is classified as a submarine.

[KARUPONNO]

This is amazing. Thank you for this remarkable video. And I must say that you have an excellent & smooth video skill. The mechanism is really complicated there; goodness !! Lots & lots of pressure taps & indicators. I just loved this clip. From me - FIVE STARS ...

[Prokchops]

looks like the sub from LOST