Is North Korea playing a game of hide and seek?

I do not usually follow the happenings in Asia very closely…..I spend my brain energy trying to cope with the Middle East and North Africa……but from time to time there is a story that catches my eye and I will wait to see if the media covers it and other bloggers also….if not then I feel I must bring it to my reader’s attention.

VIOLA!  We have one of today’s posts.

For the last couple of months now there has been a wealth of stories coming from the Korean Peninsula…… the shots fired across the border or the music played by the South to drive the North batcrap crazy…….most of the stories are mostly fleeting…..usually on slow news days…..like weekends……

I waited a couple of days to see if the story I found would make it to the news…….I figured that the liars in the media would have all kinds of theories about the incident……so far I got nothing……

Let me enlighten you………

Top government officials from the Koreas met over the weekend in the border town of Panmunjom to discuss keeping the peace, Reuters reports. But North Korea seems to be hedging its bets after a South Korean military official said that 50 of its northern foe’s submarines have disappeared, the Yonhap news agency reports. “Seventy percent of North Korea’s submarines left their bases, and their locations are not confirmed,” an official told reporters yesterday, adding, per Chosun Ilbo, “Scores of subs that have left their bases on the eastern and western coasts are off our radar, which is an unprecedentedly serious situation.”

The main concern is that the subs could cross the Northern Limit Line (the maritime line in the sand between the two countries) or take on South Korean Navy vessels in surprise attacks from the rear, the paper notes. It adds that although North Korean submarines—described by the National Post as” largely outdated and technically obsolescent versions produced in the 1960s for the Soviet Union”—make a lot of noise (meaning they should be easy to find), there are so many missing it would be hard to keep track of them all. Also worrisome, per the military official: North Korea has apparently doubled its number of artillery troops along the DMZ since Friday, per Chosun Ilbo. “They seem ready to shoot,” the official says.

50 missing subs from a country that has nuke weapons……any thoughts?

While I was writing this news came out about a deal (of sorts) in Korea…….

South Korea says it has agreed to halt propaganda broadcasts in a matter of hours after North Korea expressed regret over a recent land mine blast that maimed two South Korean troops, and CNN reports that it will lift its “semi-state of war.” South Korean national security adviser Kim Kwan-jin made the announcement in a televised briefing, after more than 30 hours of talks with North Korea ended. The talks were the second round of negotiations the rival Koreas began Saturday after events at their heavily guarded border pushed them to the brink of a possible military confrontation. Kim says the two Koreas have also agreed to hold talks to improve their ties soon in either Seoul or Pyongyang.

Now that the Koreas are making nice…..will the missing subs reappear?

Thoughts?

Testing……1…..2…..Testing……Anyone out there?