Posted on 03/26/2010 10:18:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean authorities stepped up searches for 46 sailors still missing Saturday, hours after a naval ship sank near a disputed sea border with North Korea.
Navy and coast guard vessels, as well as air force planes, were searching the waters near South Korea's Baeknyeong Island where the 1,200-ton Cheonan sank during a routine patrolling mission.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said rescuers had picked up 58 sailors but 46 still were missing.
President Lee Myung-bak ordered officials to find the cause of the sinking quickly while keeping in mind all possibilities, presidential spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye said Saturday. There was no indication North Korea was to blame, but troops kept a vigilant watch.
Lee reconvened a security meeting and instructed officials to make all efforts to rescue the missing sailors, the spokeswoman said. Kim added there were no signs of North Korean troop movement.
Some senior government officials have speculated the sinking may have been an accident, not an attack, South Korean media said.
Friday's accident happened hours after North Korea's military threatened "unpredictable strikes" against the U.S. and South Korea in anger over a report the two countries plan to prepare for possible instability in the totalitarian country.
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I always liked Dennis.
ooops, wrong thread:)
Navigating around South Korea’s Baeknyeong Island is like swimming through a minefield.
I kinda favored Denise myself but to each his own.
Sorry, I posted that to the WRONG thread:)
Hope you weren’t on the singles thread.=0
No, the Dennis Hopper is sick thread...dying.
And here comes Zero’s “October Surprise” just in time for elections.
Just curious.... Did she have a brother named Denephew?
Anytime the North goes rogue and wipes out some soldiers/citizens of South Korea/America-we’ll hear every excuse why it wasn’t an act of aggression.
If things come to a head at the peninsula,then expect the good guy’s response to be crap at best.Not that we’ll lose the next war(which will happen with this kind of lunacy) but expect the outcome to be disappointing.
WAR, damnit, WAR on a nation that is less significant than a pimple on a homosexual private’s ass! Our treasonous leaders at the time the ‘cease fire’ was signed should have been executed for treason. Leaving this two-bit commie nation standing after so many of our men were killed is unconscionable.
Cheers!
Related... indirectly:
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