North Korea 'Sunk South Korean Warship', Killing 46 Sailors

[tekisui]

Source; news.com.au

AN elite North Korean suicide squad of human torpedoes may have been involved in the sinking of a South Korean ship in mysterious circumstances.

South Korea's Defence Intelligence Command had alerted the Navy weeks ahead of the sinking that North Korean suicide squads were being deployed, according to reports in Seoul, Sky News reports

The "Human torpedo" squads were said to involve small submarines, Sky News reports.

They are navigated so close to the target that their torpedoes or explosives blow up both target and the attackers.

They can also be timed to explode while the attackers escape from the vessel, the mass-circulation South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported.

The attack by North Korea on the 1200-tonne Cheonan claimed the lives of more than 40 sailors and was in retaliation for an earlier naval defeat, the report added.

"It is the military intelligence's assessment that the North attacked with a heavy torpedo," a military source was quoted as saying by the news agency Yonhap.

"The military intelligence has made the report to the Blue House - the Presidential residence - and to the Defence Ministry immediately after the sinking of the Cheonan that it is clearly the work of North Korea's military," the source added.

more: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korea-sunk-south-korean-warship-killing-46-sailors/story-e6frfkyi-1225856989612

[JNelson6563]

1. Any day now the Rethugs will call for war.

Assholes.

[Mz Pip]

2. Retroactively

Like why didn't Obama bomb N Korea on Jan 21, 2009. I'm surprised McCain hasn't been on every talk show with sword drawn leading the charge through the way back machine.

[n2doc]

3. N. Korea doesn't have oil, or much else

That's why W let them have the bomb. He just didn't care.

This will be a "regional issue" as well. Unless N Korea develops a missile capable of hitting Israel. Then we will be all over them.

[tekisui]

4. It did play a part, however, in the decision to delay the handover

of 'wartime operational command' from the US to S Korea.

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2010042223778

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. That was pretty clear after they got their first look at the hull

Desperate people do stupid things. The North Korean regime, which claims to be communist, is clearly in bad straights and the North Korean people are even worse off.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. This is a clear act of war by North Korea...What will South Korea do?

Troops stationed in Korea are little more than a road bump if the cease fire agreement is considered broken and the war turns hot again.