North Korea Captures USN UUV

I beliece this is my 25th post! Hooray! Now let's get down to buisness. AP has reported that North Korea has claimed to have captured a US spy UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle). Here's the article:

North Korea claimed it has captured an unmanned U.S. submersible and put it
on display in Pyongyang, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Monday. The
U.S. dismissed the report. The small vessel was captured during a reconnaissance
mission in waters off North Korea's eastern city of Hamhung, said the Choson
Sinbo newspaper, which is published by a pro-North Korean association linked to
the Pyongyang government. The newspaper report on its Web site, which is
monitored in Seoul, was accompanied by a picture purported to be of the black
torpedo-shaped U.S. vessel. There were no further details as to when or how
North Korea obtained it. A spokesman for the U.S. military in South Korea, David
Oten, dismissed the report. "We have nothing unaccounted for and there is no way
for us to verify that this is a U.S. vessel," Oten said. Last September, North
Korean leader Kim Jong-Il instructed officials to put the captured vessel on
public display next to the spy ship USS Pueblo, which the communist regime
seized along with its crew of 82 in 1968, the newspaper said. The crew was
released after 11 months. The Pueblo, moored to the bank of the Taedong River in
Pyongyang, is now the site of tours to inspire anti-U.S. sentiment among the
country's 23 million people. Some 1,500 North Koreans made daily visits to the
Pueblo during a recent month-long, anti-U.S. rally period, said the newspaper.
Despite repeated U.S. assurances that it has no intention of attacking the
North, the communist country frequently claims that Washington seeks to invade
it and that the U.S. is driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of
war. The North recently raised regional tensions by test-launching seven
missiles, including a new long-range model believed capable of reaching the U.S.
that failed shortly after takeoff.

http://http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/feeds/ap/2006/08/07/ap2930859.html

Now this whole block quote thing is screwed up. Here's apicture of the thing:

Now this thing looks like a big-ass torpedo. One guy left a comment on NK Zone saying that when he visited P'yongyang, he went to see the USS Pueblo which is now a propaganda museum. The tour guide showed them the UUV and said it was a spy torpedo. But what the f**k is a spy torpedo? But here's the thing. There was a torpedo that big. It's the Type 93. It was used by the Imperial japanese Navy in WWII. There's a very informative wikipedia entry on this.

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Lance

So there we have it. Case Closed. Whoever goes to see this when they visit North Korea. Tell the tour guide that it's an old Type 93 torpedo.