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North Korea threatens South Korea with "total war"
20th May 2010, 08:59 clock

South Korea feels from its neighbor North Korea provoked militarily. Investigations revealed that North Korea is said to have a South Korean warship fired a torpedo and sunk. In the event of sanctions North Korea is now threatening with "harsh measures" or the "total war".


The battle lines between the neighboring countries are hardening. An international investigation team concluded that North Korea attacked the corvette

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Nearly eight weeks after the tragedy of 46 deaths, an international team of investigators came to the conclusion that North Korea had fired on the 1,200-tonne corvette near inter-Korean sea border by a torpedo and sunk.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak accused North Korea "military provocation against" and announced that resolute action against the communist neighbor. North Korea threatened in the event of penalties or retaliation with "severe measures to total war."

Barack Obama also made North Korea for the sinking of the Cheonan "in the Yellow Sea in charge and accused the country" unacceptable behavior before. " A White House spokesman announced that Obama has condemned the "act of aggression" which led to the downfall, "sharp".

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon expressed most concern about the investigation. Seoul had suggested to try to bring the case to the "Cheonan" before the Security Council. For a conviction or other sanctions against Pyongyang by the Council it would be important, according to observers, to convince China of the guilt of North Korea from destruction.

there is "overwhelming evidence to the conclusion" that a submarine from North Korea had fired the torpedo, said the civil-military team of investigators in Seoul. "There is no other credible explanation." At the conclusion they were by the analysis of cracks in the wreck of the Cheonan "and come at the accident off the west coast of South Korea collected debris.

Among other things, it was said that recovered parts were like a torpedo of found a few years ago torpedo stray from North Korea. Also, there is evidence that small North Korean submarine had resided at the time of the accident near the sinking site. In the investigation alongside South Koreans and experts from the U.S., Australia, Britain and Sweden were involved.

Through international cooperation would bring the regime in Pyongyang, South Korea to "admit his wrongdoing" and in a responsible way to return to the international community, President Lee said in a telephone conversation with the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Lee wanted this Friday in Seoul, the National Security Council convened an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures.

North Korea denied again to have sunk a ship. To have a spokesperson for the National Defense Commission - the most powerful body in the country - imputed Seoul, faked to the study findings. At the same time, the Commission on state television had offered to send a special investigation team, reported the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

On the disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea, it has already been repeated skirmishes between vessels of both countries. The two Koreas are still at war under international law, because since the end of the Korean War (1950-53) still no peace treaty has been concluded.

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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's president convened an emergency national security meeting Friday, a day after an official report concluded that North Korea was responsible for the deadly sinking of a naval patrol ship.

North Korea, for its part, spoke of war for a second straight day, while U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was on the way to the region and tensions on the Korean peninsula were expected to dominate her agenda.

South Korea accused North Korea on Thursday of sinking the patrol ship Cheonan with a torpedo in late March in what was the deadliest attack on the South since the Korean War ended in 1953.

President Lee Myung-bak convened a meeting of his National Security Council, said Nam Ki-myung, an assistant in the press office at the presidential Blue House, though she had no details as the meeting was under way.

The council consists of the prime minister, the foreign and defense ministers, the minister in charge of unification with North Korea and the chief of the National Intelligence Service.

Lee vowed Thursday to take "resolute countermeasures" against the North over the sinking. He was expected to give an address to the nation in coming days.

North Korea, which has denied any role in the sinking, said Friday it "will regard the present situation as the phase of war and decisively handle all matters arising in inter-Korean relations to cope with it."

The remarks were included in a statement by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, which is in charge of inter-Korean affairs and carried on the Korean Central News Agency.

The statement followed one by the country's military on Thursday that any retaliation over the sinking would mean "all-out war."

Meanwhile, Clinton, the top U.S. diplomat, was scheduled to begin a three-nation tour of the region with a visit to Japan later Friday. Besides Tokyo, she will visit China and South Korea.

Japan criticized the North on Thursday over the sinking, but China, Pyongyang's key ally, refrained from doing so, instead calling on all parties to "stay calm and exercise restraint."

Just hours before she departed, the White House called the ship sinking an "act of aggression." In a statement, officials called it "a challenge to international peace and security and ... a violation of the Armistice Agreement" that ended the Korean War.

Separately, the U.N. Command's Military Armistice Commission will soon launch an investigation into whether the North has violated the 1953 armistice, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Friday, citing an unnamed government source.

Should the findings prove true, the commission will suggest holding military talks with the North and strongly protest the violation, the report said.

The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, rather than a peace treaty. The land border is the world's most heavily armed and the western sea border has been the site of several deadly naval clashes since 1999. The United States stations 28,500 troops in the South.

An international team of civilian and military investigators declared Thursday in that a North Korean submarine fired a homing torpedo at the Cheonan on March 26, ripping the 1,200-ton ship in two.

Fifty-eight sailors were rescued, but 46 died - South Korea's worst military disaster since a truce ended the three-year Korean War in 1953.

Torpedo fragments found on the seabed "perfectly match" the schematics of a North Korean-made torpedo Pyongyang has tried to sell abroad, chief investigator Yoon Duk-yong said. A serial number on one piece is consistent with markings from a North Korean torpedo that Seoul obtained years earlier, he said.

"The evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that the torpedo was fired by a North Korean submarine," he said. "There is no other plausible explanation."

North Korean naval spokesman Col. Pak In Ho told broadcaster APTN in an exclusive interview in Pyongyang that the evidence was faked.

It remains unclear what steps South Korea will pursue against the North. Options include taking the issue to the U.N. Security Council, where North Korea has been previously sanctioned over nuclear and missile tests.

Military retaliation, however, is seen as too dangerous and not a serious option given the vulnerability of South Korea's capital, Seoul, and its 10 million some residents to North Korean artillery located just across the border.

U.S. troops in and around South Korea remained on the same level of alert, said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Carl Baker, an expert on Korean military relations at the Pacific Forum CSIS think-tank in Honolulu, said that military retaliation was not in the cards.

"I think that we need to be strategic about it in the sense that you can't just go back and do something as retaliation because that just sort of feeds the cycle and so that's not going to be useful," he said. "And I think all indications in the South Korean military is that they recognize that."