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| Norks deny involvement in sinking of Cheonan |
| 2010-04-18 |
| At least we have them on record now. SEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Saturday denied involvement in the recent sinking of a South Korean warship that left 38 sailors confirmed dead and eight others still missing, claiming such suspicions have been fabricated by the South Korean government. "Failing to probe the cause of the sinking of the ship, the puppet military warmongers, right-wing conservative politicians and the group of other traitors in South Korea are now foolishly seeking to link the accident with the north at any cost," a defense commentator at the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement. "The military warmongers are getting more undisguised in their moves to link the accident with the north though it was caused by their fault," said the statement, carried by the KCNA. It marked the first time the North has officially denied involvement in the March 26 incident. The statement said the North considers the event a tragedy as it claimed the lives of many Koreans. "Though the sunken large ship belongs to the South side, we have so far regarded the accident as a regretful accident that should not happen in the light of the fact that many missing persons and most of rescued members of the crew are fellow countrymen forced to live a tiresome life in the puppet army," it said. It also said the South Korean administration was trying to lay the blame on North Korea in an attempt to divert the attention of the public from its own mistakes ahead of the June 2 local elections in South Korea. "It is prompted by its ulterior intention to get rid of the worst ruling crisis caused by the 'state management failure,' the statement said. "Another sinister aim sought by the puppet regime in floating the above-said story is to justify the persistent and anachronistic policy towards the DPRK and shirk the blame for having driven the inter-Korean relations to the worst crisis," it added. South Korean investigators said on Friday that an external explosion was the most likely cause behind the sinking of the 1,200-ton Cheonan patrol ship near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 ION WMF > TAIWAN UNRELIABLE: US AND JAPAN TO STRENGTHEN JAPAN'S YONAGUNI ISLAND GARRISON. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-18 19:52 |
| #1 NET POSTERS > are attempting to investigate any COVERT CHINESE ROLE in the CHEONAN sinking. given the sojourn of 8-20 vessels of the PRC's NORTH CHINA SEAS FLEET into the region. IIUC the OKINAWA PLAN Group was only part of a larger PLAN force sent into the South Chin Seas??? Also, JAPAN is repor that RUSS sent TWO TU-95MS STRATEGIC BOMBERSon an alleged training flight off Japan circa April 15th??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-18 19:51 |