I read this article but really didn't learn much. I was hoping to find out why we didn't firebomb N. Korea when they refused to let this ship go.
I was hoping to find out why we didn't firebomb N. Korea when they refused to let this ship go.
I was stationed as a cop at Osan (actually guarding the alert birds when the attack took place) when all this went down. We asked the same question. After about 2 weeks we realized nothing was going to happen, morale went right in the toilet.
The answer is that such an action by the US would have caused an international war between the US and China. The ship was not worth it.