North Korean Suicide Human Torpedoes?!?!?

[Kai]

Pretty sure this story is legit. I believe I also saw something about it on Fox News, Huffington Post, and The Daily Mail.

[Cain]

Bullshit story is bullshit

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/north-koreas-human-torpedoes-myth-or-military-threat/

The sourcing on these articles is a bit dubious: several of them rely on unnamed "experts" or "intelligence sources." As the Los Angeles Times notes, South Korea's defense minister, Kim Tae-young, has been publicly doubtful about whether a commando could manage to steer a small submersible like a SEAL Delivery Vehicle into a ship that was moving at speed. "SDVs are very slow and there is a low possibility that such vessels were used in an attack," Kim reportedly told lawmakers.

That said...

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02500&num=6445

Lee also said he heard about human torpedo units, explaining, "They belong to the sea sniper brigades of the East Sea and West Sea fleets. Each fleet has one suicide unit. They travel on the submarine in the beginning but, from a certain point they ride on the torpedo and direct it to its target. Torpedo carriers are told that they can escape, however, in reality it is very difficult."

So they do exist, maybe, but they probably weren't actually used.

[Drunken Monkey Cabal]

Aside from the propaganda angle there is no need logistical logic for NK to have suicide torpedoes.

To blow up any mid sized vessel you probably only need around 200kgish of explosives depending on where you hit it/ effect method. something like Torpex perhaps.  Even a double hulled submersible can be destroyed relatively easily with a shaped charge. as opposed to something being single-man submarine sized.

As for guidance, human visibility is terrible underwater, add in reactions. A Simple magnetometer, sonar receiver or other seeker would work much more effectively, especially against surface vessels who can only manoeuvre within a limited plane.

Given the fact that NK has made a range of Ballistic missiles which are good enough to export, I'm pretty sure they can construct a half decent seeker for a torpedo for the say 65 kg weight envelope that a 'commando' would inhabit.
 

[Triple Zero]

I have a friend who claims to be North Korean (ran away when she was a child, and was imprisoned by Japan as a spy, and eventually made her way to Canada) She says that the bestiality rate is astronomical and that prisoners are executed by being fed to a tiger, and often raped by the tiger as well. 

Most likely she is making it all up and is actually a middle aged shut in having a laugh at me, but its made North Korea sound way more interesting.

... if this is one of your necro slash death rape buddies then yeah they probably totally didn't lift that story from some sick hentai or shit.

Did the tiger have tentacles? How many dicks did it use to rape them with?