Peace Voyager
07-26-2010, 01:04 PM
What do you think?
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LA Times 7/23/10: Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking
Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:42 am (PDT)
Some in South Korea dispute the official version of events: that a North Korean torpedo ripped apart the Cheonan.
by Barbara Demick and John M. GlionnaThe Los Angeles Times
July 23, 2010 Reporting from Seoul
The way U.S. officials see it, there's little mystery behind the most notorious shipwreck in recent Korean history.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls the evidence
"overwhelming" that the Cheonan, a South Korean warship that sank in
March, was hit by a North Korean torpedo. Vice President Joe Biden has
cited the South Korean-led panel investigating the sinking as a model of
transparency.
But challenges to the official version of events are coming from an unlikely place: within South Korea.
Armed with dossiers of their own scientific studies and bolstered by
conspiracy theories, critics dispute the findings announced May 20 by
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, which pointed a finger at
Pyongyang.
They also question why Lee made the announcement nearly two months after the ship's sinking, on the very day campaigning opened for fiercely
contested local elections. Many accuse the conservative leader of using
the deaths of 46 sailors to stir up anti-communist sentiment and sway
the vote...
see the rest of the story at:
Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking - Los Angeles Times (https://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/23/world/la-fg-korea-torpedo-20100724)
:hmmm:
LA Times 7/23/10: Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking
Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:42 am (PDT)
Some in South Korea dispute the official version of events: that a North Korean torpedo ripped apart the Cheonan.
by Barbara Demick and John M. GlionnaThe Los Angeles Times
July 23, 2010 Reporting from Seoul
The way U.S. officials see it, there's little mystery behind the most notorious shipwreck in recent Korean history.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls the evidence
"overwhelming" that the Cheonan, a South Korean warship that sank in
March, was hit by a North Korean torpedo. Vice President Joe Biden has
cited the South Korean-led panel investigating the sinking as a model of
transparency.
But challenges to the official version of events are coming from an unlikely place: within South Korea.
Armed with dossiers of their own scientific studies and bolstered by
conspiracy theories, critics dispute the findings announced May 20 by
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, which pointed a finger at
Pyongyang.
They also question why Lee made the announcement nearly two months after the ship's sinking, on the very day campaigning opened for fiercely
contested local elections. Many accuse the conservative leader of using
the deaths of 46 sailors to stir up anti-communist sentiment and sway
the vote...
see the rest of the story at:
Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking - Los Angeles Times (https://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/23/world/la-fg-korea-torpedo-20100724)