>>>it seems “quite unlikely” that a Korean war-vintage mine sank a ship here in 2010...
Munitions buried in WW1 battlefields are still detonating from time to time. Torpedoes and shells on sunk atomic bomb test target ships will be dangerous for decades yet to come.
>>>North Korea has probably dropped hundreds of mines to the bottom of the ocean floor.
As did the US Navy and Air Force. The forensics aren’t done yet. This may be enemy action but it also may be friendly fire.
it’s all speculation at this point
but that fact that this story (that basically disappeared over the weekend) is now back in the headlines and the SK Def Minister has brought NK back into the picture after all but ruling NK out . . . interesting
Friendly fire ain't.
good update over at One Free Korea -
Video of the ROKS Cheonan Suggests External Explosion; Plus, John Feffer Already Knows North Korea Didn’t Do It (Updated)
Posted by Joshua Stanton on March 28, 2010 at 11:14 pm · Filed under Useful Idiocy, Cheonan Incident
Submerged in sea water for going on 60 years, and it didn’t leak, or sink, or rust away to nothing? Okay...