Only in an AmeriKan newspaper.
All I can say is REMEMBER the Maine, America.
I know you probably won't because you don't even know what it means.
"Suspicion of attack by North rises
SEOUL — South Korea salvaged the remaining half of a warship that sank near a disputed sea border with North Korea, as suspicion of a North Korean torpedo attack deepened and two former South Korean presidents urged the country’s leaders to punish Pyongyang economically. The ship, the Cheonan, split in half after a mysterious explosion on March 26 (New York Times)."
Yeah, NO EVIDENCE or ANYTHING, but who needs that in the 21st century, 'eh?
Related: South Korean Sailors Lost at Sea
"S. Korean official says torpedo blast probably sank ship" by Associated Press | April 26, 2010
SEOUL— An explosion caused by a torpedo probably tore apart and sank a South Korean warship near the North Korean border, Seoul’s defense minister said yesterday. He declined to assign blame for the blast even as suspicion increasingly falls on Pyongyang.
Going to settle for a PROBABLY, huh?
Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said an underwater explosion appeared to have ripped apart the vessel, and a torpedo blast seemed the most likely cause. Investigators who examined salvaged wreckage separately announced yesterday that a close-range, external explosion likely sank the ship.
“Basically, I think the bubble jet effect caused by a heavy torpedo is the most likely’’ cause, Kim told reporters, referring to the rapidly expanding bubble an underwater blast creates and the subsequent destructive column of water unleashed.
Kim did not speculate on who may have fired the weapon and said an investigation is ongoing and it is still too early to determine the cause.
Soon after the disaster, Kim told lawmakers that a North Korean torpedo was one of the likely scenarios, but the government has been careful not to blame the North outright. Pyongyang has denied its involvement.
The Cheonan was on a routine patrol on March 26 when the explosion split it in two. Forty bodies were recovered; six crew members are presumed dead.
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Honestly, I have had it with lying governments and newspapers.
If they claim something is true I now believe the opposite.
Who benefits from more wars?
And does it matter to the people who lost loved ones?
"S. Korea buries killed sailors; Vows to retaliate for ship’s sinking" by Young-Joon Ahn and Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press | April 30, 2010
DAEJEON, South Korea — The 46 sailors killed in the sinking of a navy warship were remembered during an emotional and solemn burial yesterday, as officials vowed retaliation against those responsible for what many believe was a North Korean attack.
Wailing families placed white chrysanthemums, burned incense, and bowed in front of the framed photos of the men before their cremated ashes were buried in the country’s national cemetery in the central city of Daejeon. Buddhist and Christian clergy offered prayers, a navy band played a dirge, and troops fired a rifle salute.
Some mothers clad in black Korean traditional mourning dress wailed uncontrollably, touching photos of their sons and their urns wrapped in white cloth.
“It’s your mother! Please answer me! Please answer me!’’ one mother shouted.
Oh, man. Not a good scene!
The sailors went down with the 1,200-ton Cheonan near the tense western sea border with North Korea on March 26 shortly after it was split in two by what investigators believe was an underwater blast from outside the ship....
Yeah, NO ONE KNOWS and they may NEVER KNOW -- but blame it on you-know-who anyway!
That makes me smell the false-flag rot, readers!!!
Or maybe it was JUST an ACCIDENT and a BOILER or something blew up (but then there would be money to pay out to surviving relatives and.... better blame the North Korean who has absolutely no motive whatsoever here).
South Korea has not directly blamed its Cold War-era rival North Korea, but suspicion has focused on Pyongyang given its history of provocations and attacks on the South. South Korea’s defense minister said this week that the blast was probably caused by a torpedo attack. North Korea has denied any role in what was one of the South Korea’s worst naval disasters.
The ship’s two main pieces have been hoisted, with investigators examining them for clues to the cause of the blast. But analysts, such as Paik Hak-soon at the private Sejong Institute, said the exact reason may never be known.
But DON'T LET IT STOP you from BLAMING the North!!!!
Earlier yesterday, sirens blared across South Korea when the funeral started at the Second Fleet headquarters in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, the ship’s home base.
“We cannot forgive this and must not forgive it and must not forget it,’’ Navy Chief of Staff Kim Sung-chan said in a speech at the funeral. “We will never sit idly by in the face of whoever inflicted huge pain to our people.’’And we may NEVER KNOW!!
So you are just going to LASH OUT at WHOEVER, huh?
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And now they are trying to blame them for the oil spill?
Related:
"Setting aside the obvious nonsense about North Korean mini-subs, there is a lot of conflicting information, complicated by finger-pointing.
But what seems to have happened is ...
Deep Horizon was, as the name implied, seeking a deep oil field. The well head is 5000 feet down in the Gulf of Mexico. The well itself drilled down another 30,000 feet, for a total depth of almost 7 miles. That is the current limit of drilling and pumping technology.
The drill appears to have hit a very high pressure deposit of oil and gas. It's like the old joke of a mosquito that hits an artery and explodes. In the case of Deepwater Horizon, it appears that high pressure natural gas flowed back up the drill pipe, and being gas rather than oil, arrived back at the well head at high pressure, more than was expected, and blew out the control valves. Gas escaped above the oil rig and the first spark set it off. Attempts to close the "pinchers" have failed so far, and yesterday a classified NOAA report was leaked reporting that there are three distinct points of leakage, suggesting that the cement well cover built by Halliburton may have failed.
Already there are indications of inadequate safety precautions. Records are missing.
Estimates of how much oil is leaking vary wildly from the media reports of 5000 barrels a day up to 200,000 barrels a day. From the above animation it appears that the rate of flow is increasing.
The situation 5000 feet down at the well head is that of ruptured pipes, cracked concrete well cover, and the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon sitting on top of it all, making access to the wellhead all but impossible.
Frankly, I doubt even a nuclear bomb could close off this vent, and we may be on our way to seeing the oil underneath the Gulf of Mexico, become the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil companies are facing their own Chernobyl disaster. But they will never admit responsibility, nor will the US politicians who shirked their duty to take care of the US infrastructure, especially in an election year. The race is on to find someone to blame for it all. Hence the stories about North Korean mini-subs, and sooner or later, "Al Qaeda!" The oil companies and the US Government are off the hook if they can claim this was a terrorist attack." -- Wake the Flock UpMust have been a North Korean minisub that done the South Korean ship, huh?
I bet I'll be seeing that in the Globe the next few days -- if I even bother buying one.
Other stories designed to get you riled up:
"N. Korea to seize S. Korean properties" by Associated Press | April 24, 2010
SEOUL — North Korea said yesterday that it will confiscate five South Korean-owned properties at a jointly operated mountain resort in the isolated communist country, a development likely to worsen already-soured relations.... Tensions between the two Koreas are already high after a South Korean navy ship sank last month, killing at least 39 people and leaving seven missing, amid suspicion that North Korea may have been responsible.
Yup, everything is BASED ON SUSPICION, no EVIDENCE!!
This is a NEWSPAPER?
And who is taking over for the crazy man, 'eh?
"N. Korea photos spark talk about elusive heir; Some say third son is being groomed" by Martin Fackler, New York Times | April 25, 2010
I knew I smelt something.
SUNGNAM, South Korea — The photographs that were published last month in a North Korean newspaper appear no different from other propaganda coming from North Korea: they show the supreme leader, Kim Jong-Il, touring a steel plant in a fur cap and his trademark sunglasses.
Talk about a HYPOCRITE!
It is the pudgy but stern-faced young man next to him, dressed in a snappy Western suit and dutifully scribbling in a notebook, who has spurred intense speculation. Could this unidentified man be just a plant manager? Or could this be the first public appearance of Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader’s third son and heir apparent?
“There, see how his face is in focus and illuminated even more than Kim Jong Il himself?’’ said Cheong Seong-chang, a specialist on North Korean politics at the Sejong Institute. “There is a high possibility that this is Kim Jong Un.’’
Little is known about the inner workings of the secretive North Korean government, not even the identity of the heir apparent. But if Cheong is right, the enigmatic photographs are the latest signs of the desperate push that the North Korean government is making to build a cult of personality around the son, who is believed to be 27, to prepare him to assume control as the current leader’s health declines.
Like what we have here in AmeriKa, JYT!?
The elder Kim, 68, appeared to suffer a stroke two years ago, and there have been recent reports that he is suffering from kidney disease.
Oh, the thing that killed bin laden.
Analysts say that if Kim dies too soon, his son could be pushed aside in a scramble for power among political and military elites that would end the family’s dynastic rule and might even bring about the collapse of the impoverished totalitarian state.
While this internal struggle is going on, problems continue to mount. A currency revaluation last fall, aimed at reasserting central control over the economy, is reported to have badly backfired, producing unrest and disaffection with the government.
At the same time, the spread of cellphones and DVD players has broken the North’s self-imposed isolation, giving many of its citizens a sense for the first time of how poor and backward their country has become.
Now IF ONLY Americans would RECOGNIZE the SAME THING!
Reliable information on the political system remains scant. Photographs like those that appeared in last month’s Rodong Sinmun, the ruling party’s newspaper, are among the limited evidence that analysts and intelligence analysts must rely on as they try to understand the efforts to shore up the Kim dynasty for a third generation.
Not much is known about the man who could become the next leader of the unpredictable, nuclear-armed country, even including what he looks like.
Oh, North Korea is JUST LIKE Israel then, 'eh, JYT??
The only firsthand account comes from a Japanese chef who once worked for the Kim family and knew Kim Jong Un only as a personable and precocious boy. The only known photograph of him was taken when he was 11.
For a time, North Korea watchers regarded the leader’s eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, 39, as the most likely heir — until he was caught using a fake passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland. He now lives in Macao.--more--"
I'm glad I never read, view, or visit the New York Times anymore.
Wouldn't have covered this if it hadn't appeared in New England's largest daily, pfft.
So did the outcast son get a call from dad?
"Man imprisoned in N. Korea phones mother; Bostonian serving eight-year term" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | May 1, 2010
A 30-year-old Boston man jailed in North Korea has spoken by telephone with his family for the first time since he crossed the border on Jan. 25 and was immediately arrested.
Aijalon Mahli Gomes was allowed to call his mother Thursday night, a spokeswoman for the family, Thaleia Schlesinger, said yesterday. Gomes, who had been living in South Korea for the past couple of years, was sentenced by a North Korean court earlier this month to eight years in prison.
Any calls coming out of Gitmo lately?
The Koreans are better than us?
“She was so happy to hear his voice and to be able to talk to him and is very grateful that the North Korean government allowed him to call,’’ Schlesinger said. She declined further comment....
Yeah, AS ANY MOTHER WOULD!!!!
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How is that for those mean, nasty North Koreans, huh?
Related: Kerry Coming to Rescue in Korea
I don't give a shit whether some CIA puke got to make a phone call.And as is typical with the racist Zionist newspaper, everyone is slightly crazy unless they are a Jew.
"As modern social expectations press in, suicide rampant in South Korea" by Blaine Harden, Washington Post | April 20, 2010
SEOUL — Choi Jin-young hanged himself last month with an electrical cord.
Was he bullied?
The 39-year-old actor wasn’t getting any work in local TV, police said, and he had been depressed since the suicide of his famous older sister.
The sister, Choi Jin-sil, was known as the “nation’s actress.’’ When she hanged herself in her bathroom in October 2008, a wave of sympathetic suicides swept South Korea: 1,700 people took their lives the following month.
Seven months later, former president Roh Moo-hyun jumped off a cliff to his death. “I can’t begin to fathom the countless agonies down the road,’’ he wrote in a note.
Yeah, right! Who helped him?
Is that what this agenda-pushing article is for? To cover up an assassination?
Then a 20-year-old Chanel model, Daul Kim, killed herself after posting a blog entry that said: “Mad depressed and overworked.’’ Another said: “The more I gain, the more lonely it is.’’
Thirty-five South Koreans a day end their own lives.
Wow, that is a lot.
The suicide rate in this prosperous nation of about 50 million people has doubled in the past decade and is now the highest in the industrialized world....
Before South Korea got rich, wired, and worried, its suicide rate was among the lowest in the industrialized world. But modernity has spawned inordinate levels of stress.
It's called PROGRESS!
People here work more, sleep less, and spend more money per capita on cram schools than residents of the 29 other industrialized countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development....
Suicide among the young has been abetted by the long hours South Koreans spend online.
Sorry, MSM, but I'm not going away that way.
Police investigators say the Internet enables young people to meet and plan group suicides.
Better shut down the Internet, right, newspapers?
PFFFFFT!!!
Please STOP IT with the SELF-SERVING SHIT SHOVELING, please!
Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Koreans in their 20s and 30s and is the fourth leading cause of death overall.
No one should be driven to such despair in this world.
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