South Korea: North responsible for torpedo attack on warship
WAPOSouth Korea will formally blame North Korea on Thursday for launching a torpedo at one of its warships in March, causing an explosion that killed 46 sailors and heightened tensions in one of the world's most perilous regions, U.S. and East Asian officials said.
South Korea reached its conclusion that North Korea was responsible for the attack after investigators from Australia, Britain, Sweden and the United States pieced together portions of the ship at the port of Pyongtaek, 40 miles southwest of Seoul. The Cheonan sank on March 26, following an explosion that rocked the vessel as it sailed in the Yellow Sea off South Korea's west coast.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because South Korea has yet to disclose the findings of the investigation, said that subsequent analysis determined that the torpedo was identical to a North Korean torpedo that had previously been obtained by South Korea.
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1 comment:
I feel a strongly worded statement with no teeth coming on.
.... personally, I doubt their "conclusions".
The Norks have never shied away from admitting their acts of aggression .... look at the Pueblo incident, and Axe Murder Incident. Those were acts of war they got away with.
... and I dont see it as a gulf of tonkinish casus belli fabricated by the south either.
.... I dont know, maybe it was a rogue Sub Captain .... but it sure feels like an accidental self-inflicted sinking to me. I can see where blaming the North might be easier than admitting a manufacturing / human error. The north would have done the same thing.
I wonder why the investigators were only from Australia, Britain, Sweden and the United States. Why not no Chinese / Japanese investigators? .... aren't they the ones we really need to convince that this was a North Korean attack, if we want to respond militarily?
Now the Chinese can dismiss the findings as biased, with a straight face.
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