| [Kyodo: Korea] South Korea"s Defense Ministry on Thursday denied a local newspaper report that South Korea and the United States have concluded from evidence analysis that a blast that sank a South Korean warship in March was due to a torpedo attack, presumably by North Korea. In denying the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper report published earlier in the day, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae Jae said analysis of debris from the 1,200-ton Cheonan that broke in two and sank in the Yellow Sea on March 26 after a mysterious explosion is still under way, with no clear conclusion having yet been made. |