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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Ship 'sunk by North Koreans': official independent report
It was a dark and a slightly foggy night. Visibility was half a kilometre. The South Korean naval corvette Cheonan was patrolling 2.5km to the southwest of Baekryong Island in the Yellow Sea, in its territorial waters to the west of North Korea, on March 26 this year.
The story of the fateful final patrol of the Cheonan, built locally in 1988, has been painstakingly pieced together in a long-awaited 313-page report by the South Korean government, published this week.
It makes grim and convincing reading, in the face of myriad conspiracy theories about the warship's sinking - "friendly fire," deliberately sunk by the Americans to blame the North Koreans, foundering on rocks, scuttled.
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