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S. Korea:Cheonan Investigators Find Pieces of Torpedo Propeller(Chinese torpedo?)
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 05/18/10

Posted on 05/17/2010 9:03:21 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Cheonan Investigators Find Pieces of Torpedo Propeller

Investigators have apparently discovered pieces of a propeller from a torpedo, which could provide valuable clues to exactly what caused the Navy corvette Cheonan to sink on March 26.

"In a search using fishing trawlers, we recently discovered pieces of debris that are believed to have come from the propeller of the torpedo that attacked the Cheonan," a high-ranking government source said Monday. "Analysis of the debris shows it may have originated from China or a former Eastern-bloc country like the former Soviet Union."

If conclusive evidence is found for North Korea's role in the attack, the government plans to implement sanctions against the North immediately after announcing the results of the investigation on Thursday. Officials gathered at the presidential office on Monday to discuss specific sanctions, including joint anti-submarine exercises by South Korean and U.S. forces, the resumption of psychological warfare against North Korea, blocking North Korean ships from waters off the coast of Jeju Island and a halt to all inter-Korean trade except the Kaesong Industrial Complex.


A Chinese-made Yu-3 type torpedo like the one in this photo is presumed to have hit the Navy corvette Cheonan. A Chinese-made Yu-3 type torpedo like the one in this photo is presumed to have hit the Navy corvette Cheonan.

Investigators already concluded that traces of explosives and aluminum debris found in the funnel and split section of the Cheonan are highly likely the same type used by former Eastern-bloc countries as well as North Korea in manufacturing torpedoes, and that the North is the only likely culprit given circumstantial evidence such as the movements of submarines around the time of the sinking.

The investigators will announce the results on Thursday afternoon and show the media the split section of the corvette, which is currently in storage at a naval base in Pyeongtaek.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheonan; nkorea; skorea; torpedo
Chinese would be upset over the claim that their torpedo may have been used to sink Cheonan. This would paint them as becoming a kind of accessory to murder.
1 posted on 05/17/2010 9:03:22 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 05/17/2010 9:03:48 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

could be a third party trying to create tension between north and south korea


3 posted on 05/17/2010 9:06:22 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A torpedo isn’t like a mine.

A torpedo has to be purposely aimed and fired.

Clearly an act of war.


4 posted on 05/17/2010 9:06:24 PM PDT by DB
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To: TigerLikesRooster; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; BOBTHENAILER
North Korean sub sinks South Korean vessel with Made In China torpedo.

I am shocked. Shocked.

5 posted on 05/17/2010 9:08:48 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Looks to be an interesting weekend coming up.


6 posted on 05/17/2010 9:09:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Bump


7 posted on 05/17/2010 9:14:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Duh! As you know the norks do nothing without chicom permission. Such a kabuki dance! Funny if it weren’t so serious.


8 posted on 05/17/2010 9:31:25 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
...and show the media the split section of the corvette, which is currently in storage at a naval base in Pyeongtaek.

If the media publish any new photos of the damaged sections, please post them (or at least the URLs) here on FR -- and ping me. Thanks!!

9 posted on 05/17/2010 9:58:26 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
DPRK about a year ago or so quit the Armistace and formally resumed war footing with South Korea--and of course this is a defacto act of war on the high seas, so I believe retaliatory action against North Korea, is now in order.

Batten down the hatches over there.

Stay safe.

10 posted on 05/17/2010 10:04:26 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (ARIZONA 2010 is historic. It is the Alamo, it is THE BATTLE between US Sovereignty and Reconquista.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Why would N. Korea have done this? What did they have to gain by sinking a S. Korean ship?


11 posted on 05/17/2010 10:35:08 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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It was (apparantly) Korean-style payback for an ROK naval victory over the DPRK, some time back. The lead naval officer in Pyongyang gained a star back as a result of this tit-for-tat. This would have been on direct orders from Kim Jong il.


12 posted on 05/17/2010 10:52:17 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (ARIZONA 2010 is historic. It is the Alamo, it is THE BATTLE between US Sovereignty and Reconquista.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thanks for that explanation. It still doesn’t quite make sense to me. An act of war is pretty steep payback. Did they not worry that it might spiral out of control? [It’s a rhetorical question this time; please don’t feel you have to speculate.]


13 posted on 05/17/2010 10:55:26 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Total raving lunatics.

Putting them down would be a pleasure.


14 posted on 05/18/2010 12:31:29 AM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Chinese would be upset .... This would paint them as becoming a kind of accessory to murder.

Yeah, like the Chinese Communists have no experience with murder.

/s


15 posted on 05/18/2010 6:03:09 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: PhilDragoo
In every foreign policy/military test for Broke Insane Yomama, he has failed miserably.

Americans need to brace themselves as the level of severity and danger will surely ratchet up.

16 posted on 05/18/2010 9:08:02 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (makes me wanna holler)
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