I suspect that the crew of the Cheonan might dispute this headline from Reuters: North Korea shells South in fiercest attack in decades I suppose we run into definitional issues, and it’s true that the latest shelling has killed civilians. However, torpedoing a patrol ship without warning (even if the warship was in a disputed […]
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This may in part explain why the South Korean Navy was twitchy and mysterious about determining the cause of the Cheonan sinking: The Navy corvette Cheonan was warned on the morning it sank on March 2
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Back in the day, a fair amount of the policy oriented literature on international security focused on the question of relationships between patron and client states. The reasons for this were obvious; the Soviet Union and the United States were in competition for the allegiancefriendship of a variety of states in the first, second, and […]
We’re beginning to see the outlines of South Korea’s response to the sinking of Cheonan: President Lee Myung-bak said on Monday that South Korea would drastically reduce trade with North K
Looks fairly damning. South Korea formally accused North Korea on Thursday of responsibility for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors, in one of the deadliest provocation
Radical Contra and blowback have expressed skepticism as to North Korea’s purported role in the sinking of the Cheonan. Blowback: So South Korea has North Korean torpedos. So it is possible that the Cheonan was sunk by a North Korean torpedo fired from a South Korean sub. At the time of the Gulf of Tonkin […]
South Korea is preparing to formally accuse North Korea of sinking the Cheonan: South Korea will formally blame North Korea on Thursday for launching a torpedo at one of its warships in March, causing
Hard to commit the perfect murder of 46 South Korean sailors these days: The joint investigation team has reportedly found screw pieces of torpedo, probably causing the sinking of the Navy patrol ship
North Korea pulls a knife, South Korea threatens to pull a gun: Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Sunday that retaliation over the sinking of the Cheonan must be carried out. Kim’s remarks came on the heels of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Kim Sung-chan’s reprisal pledge made during last week’s funeral for the 46 dead […]
South Korea is putting the onus on Moscow and Beijing to push forward with diplomatic action against North Korea: South Korea will report the results of an ongoing investigation into the sinking of th
Closer to an official statement on the sinking of Cheonan: A North Korean torpedo attack was the most likely cause for the sinking of a South Korean warship last month, according to a U.S. military of