Last month’s deadly sinking of a South Korean naval ship was caused by a North Korean torpedo, a news report said today, adding to pressure on the South’s President. Lee Myung Bak, to respond to one of the worst acts of military provocation since the Korean War.
The South Korean defence ministry declined to comment on the claim by the Yonhap news agency, the latest in a series of reports suggesting that the mysterious sinking of the naval corvette, Cheonan, on March 26 was a deliberate and unprovoked attack by North Korea.
My comments: It's starting to seem unlikely that this event will lead to war. The article indicates that South Korea's President is struggling to come up with a solution to the problem of North Korean aggression.
While it is the political goal of South Korea to unify the peninsula under one, their own, government, I expect that a costly and risky war with a nuclear power is not the preferred mehod of achieving such unification. I suspect that they are hoping for a situation of political collapse that echoes German re-unification in 1989.
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