South Korean officials say an investigation is under way and rescue operations went on into the night after a South Korean warship was sunk in the Yellow Sea along the maritime border with North Korea.
The ship sank as a result of an unidentified hole in the hull, and some of those rescued have reported a loud “firing noise” before the sinking, leading to speculation about a torpedo attack by Northern ships. The sinking ship reportedly fired in the direction of the North Korean border.
But officials are seeking to downplay any Northern link to the attack, as South Korea’s Defense Ministry said that the sinking ship fired at an “unidentified object” which could well have just been a flock of birds.
They furthermore said they while they still had no idea what caused the hole, they were confident that it was not an attack by North Korea. The two nations have disputed their maritime border for decades.
Time for America to leave South Korea. Support the troops. Bring them home.
The North Koreans are continually testing anti-ship cruise missiles with a range of roughly sixty nautical miles. They are reprted regularly by the Western press when N. Korea wants to make a military staement about YS or NATO ships getting too close to their waters or territory.
How interesting that a "hole appeared" in the S Korean ship's hull and she was firing at something just prior to its sinking. Flock of birds??????
Cruise missiles of this type skim the sea at 8 or 10 feet of altitude and by the time radar aquires them its too late and futile to even fire at it . This same type of anti-ship cruise missile destroyed an Israeli corvette killing a number of Isareli sailors off the coast of Gaza during the Cast Lead operation against Hamas. Flock of birds indeed!
I made an error in my last post. It was during the Lebanon war that Hezbolla fired an anti-ship cruise missile at an Israeli Corvette (missile ship) seriously damaging it and killinga number of her crew. The ship did not sink but was damaged severely enough that she was dead in the water and had to be towed into port.
Maybe it was a mine.
Maybe even a leftover mine from the war or the tense 1960s.
Andy, if the USA pulled out of southkorea the two countries would have at it. Its been the USA that has kept them just yelling at each other instead of throwing rocks. Or bullets if you will.
Could it be a black-flag operation to justify a war with the N. Korea? That would be a great way to divert American citizens attention away from a still imploding national economy, intractable and massive unemployment, trillions of dollars in Wall Street bank bailouts, the fact that the healthcare corporations wrote the healthcare legislation that was just passed, and a planned takeover of private pension plans by the FED and the banking industry. Want more info.? Go here: infowars.com
I agree.
I vote for a "Gulf of Tonkin" operation to divert attention from the health care nonsense. Obama needs a war right now.
Yes, he does. And I'm sure his fascist bosses on Wall Street wants one too.