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Russian investigators to look into Korean incident
Published: 31 May, 2010, 16:57
Edited: 29 July, 2010, 18:05
TAGS: Conflict, Military, Scandal, Asia, Russia, North Korea
Russian investigators have arrived in Seoul to conduct an independent investigation into the events which led to the sinking of a South Korean warship in March this year.
An international team of investigators had earlier blamed North Korea, saying one of its submarines fired a torpedo that sank the corvette, killing 46 on board.
Pyongyang has denied the allegations and the findings themselves have been widely questioned by China.
The Russian team, which includes torpedo and submarine engineers, hopes to reveal its findings next week.
If they support the conclusions reached by Seoul, it could convince China to support UN sanctions against Pyongyang.
However, Pavel Leshakov, an expert on Korean studies from Moscow State University, says Russia has many reasons to doubt the outcome of the original investigation.
The incident has destabilized the region with large scale military exercises being held both on land and at sea following the North's warning that war could break out at any moment.
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Quote RT from June 10 Edit of story: "The Russian team, which includes torpedo and submarine engineers, hopes to reveal its findings next week." Well, this is next week and we are waiting for the Russian interpretation of the data they investigated. I would wager a small amount that we will never see their results.
As suspected all from the start the North Koreans has not torpedoed that South Korean warship, today it was revealed by RT that the Russian team of experts looking into the alleged sinking of the South Korean warship was not by a Torpedoed fired by North Korean mini submarine but rather a mine explosion. The only teams investigating this alleged sinking and claiming North Korean responsibility are nations with close ties to the East Asian military interests in the region. I am so surprised and now I wonder if the UN will retract the additional sanctions put on North Korea and look over other geopoliticised issues involving the North Koreans. Not very likely though this deliberate smear campaign is to try shake up another east Asian conflict, the middle-east is lost due to wikileak so the military industrial complex need a new area of operations to keep the US economy going. *Applauds the incompetence and the biased completely useless UN organisation and their cronies.*