Posted on 06/22/2010 5:50:15 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Russia has demanded member-states at the upcoming G-8 summit refrain from blaming North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship in a draft of the meeting's statement.
Citing a Japanese government source, a Kyodo news report said the demand follows an investigation by a team of four Russian Navy submarine and torpedo experts into the March 26 sinking of the 'Cheonan' in the Yellow Sea in which 46 South Korean sailors drowned. Moscow says it has yet to reach an official conclusion on the warship sinking.
The issue is likely to figure prominently at the summit starting in Canada's financial capital Toronto from Friday as Japan and the United States have backed South Korea after Seoul announced last month that a four-nation team of investigators had found that a North Korean torpedo was responsible for the sinking of its 1,200-ton Navy frigate.
The reported Russian demand came after President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday called for a "thorough investigation" into the warship sinking before taking any action against the North.
"Although only one version has been broadly circulated, we should not take it immediately for granted. A thorough investigation is needed," Medvedev told the Wall Street Journal.
Terming the sinking of the warship "tragic," he said the "hypothesis" that it was torpedoed by "a neighboring country"-- i.e. North Korea-- is one of the possible scenarios.
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Your pansy ass national posture has created the opportunity for us to leverage this event for our benefit. A couple years ago - we wouldn't have brought this kind of crap up, but now we can. So, we plan to fully utilize this as a bargaining chip against you even though we don't care if we lose the chip. You will make the deal because you have invested in an apologetic approach to real world issues and think the UN can do something useful. We are more than happy to oblige your idiocy.
While you are at, please continue to disarm and remove your defenses. We will certainly be able to negotiate better and in good faith if you would do more of that. Finally - keep ballooning your deficit - its a great idea. Even though the same thing sunk us a while ago we are sure that you can make it work and implement all kinds of new social programs too.
Glad we are friends and best of luck.
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