Posted on 04/30/2010 3:19:13 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
South Korea's military is increasingly confident that a North Korea submarine was involved in the explosion and sinking of a South Korean warship that has left 38 dead and eight missing.
The 1,200-ton navy corvette, the Cheonan, was ripped apart on March 26 during a routine patrol near the tense border with North Korea. It was "most likely to be attacked by either a mine or a torpedo from a North Korean submarine," a military official said.
South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan sails during a naval operation on the sea March 23, just three days before it sank off Baengnyeongdo, an island near the maritime border with North Korea. Reuters/South Korean Navy State investigators, after an initial examination of wreckage on April 15 off Baeknyeong Island, concluded that an unidentified "external explosion" caused the sinking, saying the hull and iron sheets on the severed side were curved inward.
They ruled out any possibility that the ship had struck a rock or had exploded from within, deepening suspicions of a torpedo or sea mine explosion.
"No complete examination of the severed part of the stern has been done yet, but from what we have discovered so far, we believe that an external explosion most likely occurred as a result of a torpedo or a sea mine attack below the ship," the official said.
The ship appeared torn apart by a so-called "bubble jet effect," a powerful water pillar created when a torpedo or sea mine blows up under water near a ship without striking it, investigators said. Such a pillar, created by pressure differences, is so powerful that it can tear a ship apart.
"As the ship was also halved in the middle, it is highly likely that a torpedo fired from a submarine or mine destroyed the ship,"
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Keep practicing til ya get it right I say .
it is highly likely that a torpedo fired from a submarine or mine destroyed the ship,”
Madame Halfbright.
We're a little short of cash right now, how about we send them Hussein 0bamao instead?
The North Koreans are the world’s leader in counterfiting US hundred dollar bills. And both ours and their’s wil be worth about the same soon.
“What are you prepared to do about it?”
Sean Connery, “The Untouchables”
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