North Korean Kamikaze Dolphins
North Korea is most likely training dolphins for offensive military operations. Satellites have captured images of a base that is eerily similar to training grounds.
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We only get a few sparse information about what is going on in North Korea. And a large portion of them is coming from satellite images. And it's precisely satellite images that the militaristic activities of the East-Asian dictatorship most likely include military training of dolphins for offensive operations.
Satellite images have captured a base that looks like training grounds in which the dolphins get ready for military missions. Experts are convinced that the dolphins are being trained for the purposes of attacking enemy ships and at the same time it seems that the activity in the region seems to be growing.
The place can be found in one of the influxes of the North Korean river Taedong roughly 13 kilometers away from the estuary of the river into the Yellow Sea. In 2016 two enclosures for water animals were found there.
During 2019 the number of enclosures increased to 5. According to experts, these are similar to the ones the US Navy and the Russian navy uses to train marine mammals as both Americans and Russians have programs in which they teach animals to detect divers or – for example – mines.
The US Navy labels dolphins as the Mark 7 Marine Mammal System and they are currently being trained to find and mark mines to be later defused by human divers. The Russians are most likely to use dolphins to protect their ships in the Syrian port Tartus.
North Korea and its allies claim the enclosures we see in satellite images are just fish farms. But these look different as they have different constructions. Even on the river Taedong, we can see plenty of such farms and thus can easily compare them with what we see. Another thing is that the enclosures can be found in an area where brackish water – water which is slightly salty – can be found and this kind of water is tolerable for dolphins.
But why is North Korea training dolphins? North Korea has some arsenal available for naval and amphibious small-scale operations. Lately, they have been conducting provocations during which they attack South Koran military and civilian ships and also other targets near the sea. These kinds of missions are exactly the kind dolphins could be useful for. For example by strapping explosives to the dolphins' backs and have them explode very close to enemy ships.
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Fun fact: In Red Alert 2, the Allies had attack dolphins as one of their naval units. Conversely, the Soviets had attack giant squids.
I always preferred the Tiberium series from C&C :) Never got into the Red Alert ones but played a ton of Tiberium Sun, but even that mostly because my dad played that so I played against him :)
I liked them both.
They are different in art styles, but good nonetheless.
you got to be kidding me! They might as well strap on a bomb themselves and swim it over.
Yeah, it's certainly evil. But... well... from a practical standpoint, it's a good tactic. And dolphins swim faster than people.