Posted on 05/19/2010 11:10:47 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Investigators let media have a look at the wreckage of the Cheonan on Wednesday, the day before South Korea was to formally announce that a North Korea torpedo sank the South Korean patrol ship.
The wreckage of the March 26 sinking was retrieved from the Yellow Sea near the maritime border between the two Koreas and hauled to South Korea’s Second Fleet Command base in Pyeongtaek.
Yoon Duk-yong, an investigator with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, told reporters Wednesday that evidence from the recovered pieces of the ship points to a torpedo attack. He said a torpedo likely exploded near the Cheonan, causing a shock wave bubble that split it in half and caused impacted areas of the patrol boat to “dish,” or bend inward.
Yoon said the boat appeared to have been hit in one strike, making it likely that the damage was caused by a torpedo instead of a mine.
Media were granted access to the wreckage Wednesday on condition they not publish material until after 10 a.m. Thursday, when officials at a press conference were expected to formally announce that North Korea is to blame for the sinking that killed 46 sailors.
Experts have said South Korea will ask for more United Nations sanctions against North Korea, instead of responding with a military strike. South Korea will also likely ask the U.S. to delay the transfer of operational wartime control – when South Korea assumes wartime command of its troops – which is now scheduled for April 17, 2012, they said.
U.S. analysts joined the South Korean-led investigation team that determined the cause of the explosion, and U.S. underwater explosive ordnance and rescue-and-salvage teams aided in the search for the wreckage.
North Korea threatening all out war (again!) a couple of hours ago. They don’t like the ROK press conferences and dog/pony show, and Presidential statement out of Seoul, South Korea, apparantly.
yep.
Perhaps someone should tell the Chicoms to “curb your dog”...
Lil’ kim saying if you blame us, it’s war.
I hope Barry0 doesn’t get the 3:AM phone call this morning. He’ll still be unconscious from doing tequila shooters with Calderon.
PIng to post 8.
Post 8 and 10.
Thank you for the ping Jet Jaguar.
Thank you for the posts American In Tokyo.
Bump
As they should be.
Previously...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2516348/posts
[S. Korea: Cheonan] Torpedo’s Serial Number Found to be in N. Korean Typeface (smoking gun)
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 05/19/10 | Ju Yongjung & Ryu Yongwon
Posted on May 18, 2010 6:32:07 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my excerpts
Torpedo’s Serial Number Found to be in N. Korean Typeface
Ju Yongjung
Ryu Yongwon, military affairs reporter
2010.05.19 03:00
An intact pair of ‘torpedo propellers’ recovered, engraving style analyzed ... U.S. and Australian experts also agree
(Torpedo) exploded 3 meters under the turbine room... Cheonan’s lost engine room found
Government source said on May 18, “Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo and we found a smoking gun that proves that it is made in N. Korea, after intensive investigation in recent days by civilian-military team.”
The investigation team recently recovered relatively intact torpedo propellers on the sea bottom where Cheonan went down. They analyzed the serial number engraved on the propellers and concluded that it is in N. Korean typeface and engraving style. The government sources said, “Experts from other countries such as U.S. and Australia also agree that the torpedo was made in N. Korea based on the analysis on propeller’s serial number. This is conclusive evidence, coming after finding of torpedo debris and explosive trace.”
/end my excerpts
You would both find this thread interesting.....
We’d be better off if 0bozo is asleep anyway. Not that he has anybody in place that’s the least bit competent. But they may not all have the first thought that America should apologize to somebody.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498167/posts
South Korean ship sunk by crack squad of ‘human torpedoes’
The Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2010 | Julian Ryall
Posted on April 22, 2010 6:15:55 AM PDT by myknowledge
The attack on the 1,220-ton Cheonan, which sank on March 26 with the loss of 46 of its 104 crew, was carried out in retaliation for a skirmish between warships of the two nations’ navies in November of last year, South Korea claims.
The South Korean government has refused to comment officially on the reports but Defence Minister Kim Tae Young told a parliamentary session that the military believed that the sinking was a deliberate act by North Korea.
Officials in military intelligence say they warned the government earlier this year that North Korea was preparing a suicide-squad submarine attack on a South Korean ship.
“Military intelligence made the report to the Blue House [the presidential office] and to the Defence Ministry immediately after the sinking of the Cheonan that it was clearly the work of North Korea’s military,” a military source said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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