• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Well gee golly.

    A Russian cargo ship carrying nuclear components for North Korea has a ‘surprise accident’.

    I can’t think of anyone who might have wanted to arrange that accident, can you? I mean surely everyone wants North Korea to have nuclear stuff… Oh wait…

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      Does not make sense for alleged cargo. Just wait till summer and use arctic route, or use a train.

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        3 days ago

        Pretty much, I mean North Korean troops were going by ship to Vladivostok, so why not just overland rail to Vladivostok then ship to NK?

        Seems much easier than sending it around the world through potentially hostile waters

    • modus@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, isn’t this from last year? Or did it happen again? That photo looks familiar.

  • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Unfortunately paywalled. Is this a delayed report on the one which was hit by a supercavating torpedo off the coast of Spain a few months ago or is this another sunk russian ship with reactors bound for North Korea’s submarine program?

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      4 days ago

      It is about the ship, which was sunk off the coast of Spain. However the supercavating torpedo thing is not really proven to my knowledge. It would be very interesting, as Ukraine does not have that technology.

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        4 days ago

        South k does, they 100% intercepted that. To cock block NK from geting those reactors.

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      4 days ago

      CNN did a video recently about the one off Spain in the last couple of days. This is probably that one.

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      4 days ago

      Depends on whether you consider December 23, 2024 “a few months ago”.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Whatever the cause of the initial blast was, Russia definitely scuttled the ship rather than have anyone else know what it was carrying.

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      4 days ago

      The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren’t the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.

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          3 days ago

          A small boat is (well, was, these are probably ~2008 prices I’m remembering) cheap. It’s probably been ‘patched’ by marinas and such, but at one time you could get a small sailboat for 10-20k, and get electricity+dock space for a tenth of the price of an apartment’s rent. You would be living in ~200 square feet at best (and probably less than that) but it was doable. For a family of three, you could probably swing that lifestyle with a 40k boat, which is still well under a typical house. Again, it would be ridiculously small, but it’s possible. A friend of mine grew up on a sailboat like that.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          I know a couple who both cashed in all their retirement to buy a boat and sail from place to place; their kids are ‘home schooled’ on the boat. they are not rich by any stretch, but they’re living their dream. not my idea of fun but, eh? the husband now just does odd marine jobs to keep their house floating. I respect their desire to live their way.