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South Korea Says North Korea May Have Intentionally Floated Mine To Damage, Sink Ship

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The story that disappeared quicker than it came, with a flock of seagulls getting the blame, may be coming back again - now AP is saying that South Korea is shifting the attention back to North Korea, saying the communist country may have intentionally floated a mine to damage the sunk ship. More as we get it.

 

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Mon, 03/29/2010 - 08:15 | 279507 Alexandra Hamilton
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But isn't that the purpose of sea-mines, to sink ships? They may have other useful and - hopefully - more peaceful uses I am not aware of, yes?

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 08:38 | 279512 Quintus
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Intentionally?  No way! It was an accident.  Mr. Park here was just polishing the mine on deck when it sort of slipped and fell overboard into the sea.  Yeah, that's it.  Sorry about your ship.  Was it insured?

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 18:57 | 280063 Willzyx
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And Mr. Park jumped in after it.  A few weeks later, all of Korea attended his funeral, even Mr. Park.

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 08:42 | 279514 rubearish10
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"A MINE"?? Was it long and skinny? Does it swim like a fish? 

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 08:55 | 279518 HungrySeagull
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Those are called torpedoes.

Who knows what really happened out there?

I wonder if one day, the entire NK Forces have occupied Seoul and we will be seeing stories about how wonderful Tourism is really high.

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 09:13 | 279530 tenaciousj
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Can anyone make up their damn minds anymore? 

No Greece bailout! Greece is getting bailed out!  No they are not!  Yes we are, but only part!  No they are not!  Yes they are!  Now maybe!  Maybe not!  I'm not, you are, no we are not!

It was an attack!  No, there was no attack.  Maybe it was!  No, maybe not! 

 

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 09:19 | 279535 Quintus
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We appear to have made a curious transition from 'The Markets hate uncertainty' to 'The only thing keeping the market up is uncertainty'.  It seems to me that this is a manifestation of the extend-and-pretend philosophy now rampant across all markets.  As long as solid facts are difficult to come by, investors are, perhaps, more amenable to accepting at face value the 'All will be well' BS poured out by the authorities.  

 

It is therefore essential that no decisions are made, no un-spun facts are released and no certainty is permitted anywhere.

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 09:40 | 279549 Captain Willard
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By now, it should be clear that the Captain of the SK ship really screwed up.

It was probably an iceberg.

How do you say "My Heart Will Go On" in Korean?

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 10:39 | 279609 A Nanny Moose
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Flock of seaguls?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk

Oh Noes!!

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:34 | 279684 Harbourcity
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When you hang around the dog house chances are you're going to step in dog shit.

 

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:03 | 279716 BlackBeard
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Spin, spin, spin away govvies..

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:10 | 279727 Arm
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Really?!  You mean modern corvettes don't spontaneously blow holes below the waterline on only one side?   Who would have figured?  

And here I was thinking it was exploding flocks of birds crashing on starboard...

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:27 | 279736 Comrade de Chaos
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The ship was split into the two. All modern missiles and possible torpedos (some ships of that type do not cary any) have on & off switch.

In the end, the offciail investigation will determine it was an UFO. While I do not usually buy into conspiracies, in this particular case all involved sides have a motivation to hide the incident (dirt) under the carpet.

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 16:18 | 279939 pan-the-ist
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Who gains from this?

After thinking about it for a bit:

1. China/NK did it to start proxy war with US/SK to destroy the USA.  US/SK hasn't responded, we'll give into demands.

2. USA did it to see if NK would own up to it.  If true USA has called the bluff and can always tell NK to STFU going forward.

3. Rogue/3rd party for the same reason as China.

4. If this was a USA false flag attack, Pyongyang would have already been bombed.

Doesn't matter if it were an accident or not, this is what is going on, and we will soon find out who the winner is.

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