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I think the ROK should just send in “the team” and get it over with. Too much public posturing on this. DPRK knows EXACTLY what they did.
What if we had stood around on 12/07/1941?
Obamas response?
***Crickets***
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
So this is pretty official now.
I suppose SK will send a sternly worded letter to the UN?
This probably answers the questions about the sudden departure of a top general in NK. Even if the Great Leader planned this the general could be a sacrificial lamb.
Bombs away...(pull out all U.S. forces first)
MI Ping
I just hear they going announced on Thursday with evidence Chia Pet is busted it
You can expect lots more belligerence from North Korea now that they have a nuke. You will see more incidents like this attack. They are one of the most (if not the most) evil regimes in the world and they aren’t not going to stop with this single attack. The US ships in the area ought to be on full alert and ready for an attack. We must put nothing past these crazy fools. They might try anything now. Don’t be surprised if they take a shot a US ship or plane. In fact I’d be surprised if they don’t do something like this just to test Obama. Joe Biden is a buffoon but like the blind pig, he managed to get an acorn saying that a country will test Obama. Stay tuned.
A North Korean submarine is about to be sniped by South Korea. It will all look like an “accident!”
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/05/19/2010051900740.html
Serial Number of Torpedo Traced to N.Korea
Investigators have found at the 11th hour found a desperately needed smoking gun linking North Korea to the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan, a government official claimed Tuesday. Investigators apparently discovered a propeller from the torpedo that likely sank the ship in relatively good condition in waters where it sank and the serial number inscribed on it is North Korean.
“U.S., Australian and other foreign experts who took part in the investigation agree that a North Korean torpedo caused the Cheonan to sink and that this is the smoking gun following various pieces of the torpedo and traces of gun powder that had been gathered so far,” the official said.
Another government source said fishing trawlers deployed in gathering evidence found a fairly intact torpedo propeller buried in the mud at the bottom of the ocean over the weekend. “It's a double propeller that obviously comes from a torpedo,” the source added. Investigators apparently compared the propeller to one attached to a North Korean training torpedo that the South Korean military obtained seven years ago and proved that the two were made of similar materials.
Torpedoes are powered by two sets of propellers that rotate in opposite directions. Investigators are said to have conducted a computerized simulation and reached a tentative conclusion that a 250 kg, mid-sized sonar-tracking torpedo exploded 3 m below the gas turbine room of the vessel. They have apparently proved that the traces of explosives found on the Cheonan are similar to some of the propellants used in the sample North Korean torpedo.
The military has transported to a Navy base in Pyeongtaek the diesel engine of the Cheonan, which had been separated from the vessel during the explosion, and is looking for traces of gunpowder. The gas turbine has also been found on the sea floor and authorities are planning to hoist it out of the water.
BO/BS will be the first to apologize.
It doesn’t matter, South Korea’s president is as big a coward as Obastard.
Nothing will happen without China’s approval.
I guess Dear Leader was pissed off that the world isn’t giving him the respect he DESERVES as the head of a nuclear North Korea. He is not having much success shaking down the hardline president of the ROK and the rest of the world is tired of his antics.
Thank you for translation!
I had the impression that the contents of the hull immediately above the blast focus were either scattered all over the sea floor -- or were shoved into adjacent hull sections...
I could see finding the engines and associated equipment in various locations, but not anything recognizable as a detached "engine room"...