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South Korea to Accuse North of Torpedo Attack
The NY Times ^ | 5/18/2010 | Choe Sang-Hun

Posted on 05/18/2010 4:15:46 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

South Korea has concluded that a North Korean torpedo sank one of its warships in March, killing 46 sailors, according to government officials and domestic news reports on Tuesday. South Korean officials are preparing to announce the results of their investigation later this week.

The much anticipated finding will accuse North Korea of committing one of the worst military provocations on the Korean Peninsula since the end of the Korean War, deepening tensions between the countries. North Korea, denying involvement in the sinking, has vowed to retaliate against any attempt to link it with the March 26 explosion that broke the South Korean corvette in half near a disputed sea border. But the South has pledged “resolute measures,” including economic sanctions, once the investigation is complete.

“We will blame a torpedo attack and link it to North Korea,” said a government official briefed on the investigation, adding that the authorities were still fine-tuning an official announcement to be made on Thursday.

He refused to discuss forensic evidence that will be cited in the report.

In a series of closed-door briefings scheduled for Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry intends to present to Chinese, Russian, Japanese and European diplomats “scientific and objective evidence to back up the conclusion that it was a North Korean torpedo attack,” said the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheonan; koreanpeninsula; koreanwar; leemungbak; leemyungbak; nkorea; northkorea; pcc772; rok; rokn; roknrok; skorea; southkorea; southkoreanmilitary; torpedo; yu3
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To: Optimist
you forgot “deeply concerned”

Maybe that'll be in the closure of the letter...

Signed: yours deeply concerned....Barry Obama.

21 posted on 05/18/2010 4:49:29 PM PDT by highlander_UW (First we take down the Democrats, then we clean the Augean stable that is the GOP.)
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To: RC2
You’re absolutely correct. Mainly because he doesn’t know what to do about it. He has no cajones.

Apparently no one has any cajonies, Truman left that mess for us after firing MacCarthur.

22 posted on 05/18/2010 4:51:12 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: Sax
As nukes proliferate further into rouge states

Hope this is not a back handed compliment to Palin? Going Rouge, Going Rogue :)

23 posted on 05/18/2010 4:52:44 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: sonofstrangelove; TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo

And then........what?


24 posted on 05/18/2010 4:53:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Carling

He will withdraw US troops from South Korea, freeing up more money to give away to cronies and to spend on boondoggles.


25 posted on 05/18/2010 5:20:36 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

Yep, withdraw troops that are giving a threatening appearanc to our presence on the DMZ. And as we all know, we must make up for the mistakes of the past, and show that we are not a threat to PRK


26 posted on 05/18/2010 5:25:42 PM PDT by Optimist (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
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To: highlander_UW

Beer Summit?


27 posted on 05/18/2010 5:29:42 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /s tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: Travis McGee
accusations without action will make them lose even more face, no???
28 posted on 05/18/2010 5:36:43 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks sonofstrangelove.


29 posted on 05/18/2010 5:48:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: ConservativeMind

Except that this is as much a chinese powerplay as dpnk. s korea can’t face down china. another blow to us prestige. we are losing spheres of influence right and left. Well at least we have the mexican sphere of influence left. I know, low blow. But Calderon does seem to love us and our blissfully ignorant, politically docile ways.


30 posted on 05/18/2010 6:27:44 PM PDT by kinghorse
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To: Personal Responsibility
Beer Summit?

I don't think the little troll running NK drinks cheap.

31 posted on 05/18/2010 6:28:25 PM PDT by highlander_UW (First we take down the Democrats, then we clean the Augean stable that is the GOP.)
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To: sonofstrangelove

A new Stealth Torpedo??


32 posted on 05/18/2010 8:44:09 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: HangnJudge

Did we actually DECLARE war against North Korea? Or just start fighting it, as in Vietnam and all others since?


33 posted on 05/18/2010 8:46:37 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: sonofstrangelove

You do not accuse, you either deliver some payback or STFU. It’s harder that it looks of course, there’s no easy way to deal with NK


34 posted on 05/18/2010 8:47:35 PM PDT by mainsail that (Vote Obama: Get 15 salaries and retire at 45!)
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To: 2harddrive
Did we actually DECLARE war against North Korea?
Or just start fighting it, as in Vietnam and all others since?

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

In the United States, the war was officially described as a police action owing to the lack of a declaration of war by the US Congress. Colloquially, it has been referred to in the United States as The Forgotten War and The Unknown War. Ostensibly it was a United Nations conflict, ended in stalemate

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement

35 posted on 05/18/2010 8:54:14 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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