Well, this is interesting. It would be helpful to our understanding to see the analysis of the Russian team that visited South Korea to study the evidence. I did hear yesterday a short report on US radio about this that alluded to some "timing" problems that the Russian team thought existed.

What has North Korea got to gain by sinking a South Korean ship? Nothing. Who has to gain from a new stand off between the two Koreas? The USA of course.To maintain a military presence there. In every police murder investigation, the first question usually asked is who has the motive.In this case just the USA. I do not believe that a false flag attack was carried out on the south Korean ship, but I do believe the US and other interested parties used the opportunity to blame the North.Why else were Russia and China not represented in the initial "international" investigation? Especially since the torpedo was either Russian or Chinese made or very least north Korean of either Russian or Chinese design. I would not be surprised if the Russian findings that the ship hit a mine was true.Since it was in an disputed area, the mine maybe either north or south Korean.

the role of Russia in this whole matter is dubious and dangerous as. It is dubious, dangerous and ambiguity for Russia is repeating its cardinal mistake in going along with the empire of chaos’s new sanctions against Iran. Russia did the right thing by conducting its own investigation on the sinking of the South Korean ship in question and it came to a different conclusion than the one reached by South Korean and the U.S officials but it is unhelpful and counterproductive for Russia not make its findings public. Russia is showing its lack of resolve in this as it showed similar lack of resolve in Iran. Russia is playing a double of trying not embarrassing its newest and dearest friend, the empire of Chaos while attempting to ease tension between North and South Koreas. This is why Russia leaked the information to a sympathetic South Korean newspaper. Some may remember Hilary Clinton’s famous lies of coming fire in Bosnia. We know this was a lie. She will bring chaos to the Korean conflict not peace and reconciliation.

I was right again, heck when you know how this world works it ends to provide you surprises. I hope they fire Clinton, that war bitch is to much to at least save something of President Obamas credibility. Where there is a Clinton, War erupts unless the world community is vigilant and act pre-emptive with peaceful means. Even better make up for the lies and the sabre rattling and take away those additional UN sanctions and maybe, just maybe the so called International Community can get back some of its already mashed up garbage pale kid face. - Peace -

And the truth shall prevail, even if the agenda-fixated United States is not interested in it.

To the "outside" world intellectuals who don't read Korean, This is a remarkable story of people the governed(although they are in theory supposed to be the actual governor in democracy), not their government making difference in the world (history). 1. Compare and contrast. "More enlightened" American people, Congress and media; Bush; WMD; War (and huge suffering), (http://whitehouser.com/war/CIA-confirms-Bush-WMD-lie) and, "Supposedly less so enlightened" Korean people; Korean President Lee; Cheonan; prevention of War (so far). (I am including among 'the Korean people' the Korean-Americans.) 2. Also remarkable is that the "inside" Korean people braved the government prosecution. Caveat: Under the current South Korean regime, South Korean citizens can be sued for defamation by their own government officials, and defamation in South Korea is a crime (as well as a civil offense) prosecuted by the government's own centrally-controlled national prosecutors who selectively choose or choose not whom to prosecute. Recently, Shin Sang-chul, "an expert placed on the JIG [Joint Investigation Group] by" the Nationial Assembly, got (criminally) sued for defamation by a government official for expressing disagreement over the current South Korean regime's version of the Cheonan Incident. (South Korean people's firsthand knowledge about the pro-government polls is that they are ridiculously overinflated. A proof: war-fear-mongering South Korean President Lee Myung-bak got unexpectedly humiliated on the June 2 election by the "Supposedly less so enlightened" Korean people, when "survey conducted by the major daily [pro-government]Dong-A Ilbo and the Korea Research Center from May 24 to 26[7-days-before] forecast[ed] that Oh would beat Han by 20.8 percent." Actual election result: 0.6 percent(="47.4 percent"-"46.8 percent.") Source: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2921960 )

3. A list of early English publications on Questions on the Cheonan Incident and the Power of South Korean Netizens can be found at http://korea.true.ws (by LetsTry Reason). Also, look at: "Five reasons why the the JIG's 5-page statement cannot be considered scientific and objective, nor ... 'international'" http://japanfocus.org/-JOHN-MCGLYNN/3372 ; http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/pcc-772-cheonan-south-korean-government-admits-the-deception-and-then-lies-about-it/ ; http://nature.com/news/2010/080710/full/news.2010.343.html ; http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-korea-torpedo-20100724,0,4196801,full.story 4. Compare and contrast. 9/11; Al-Qaeda; brags We did it(, was not wrong, not sorry about it and we will do it again). Cheonan; North Korea; brags We didn't do it (therefore, presumably, was wrong, sorry about it and we will not do it). (Why the difference?) Crime and punishment. If we are taking consequentialist moral philosophy, and if the utilitarian utility of punishment is to prevent future crime, then punishment serves little or no purpose (maybe to others but not)to North Korea who says 'We didn't do it,' because either (a) the North didn't do it, therefore the punishment will be outrageous injustice, or (b) the North did do it, but 'We didn't do it' basically implies 'We will not do it.' (This particular 'it' hardly gives the North any payoff.) 5. Representative democracy is not pure democracy. (Pure)Direct democracy of a nation-size is now (or becoming) possible, through recent developments in computer science and technology, making secure private Internet-voting, democratic online discussions, cheap instantaneous micro referendum and freedom of choice to vote directly on an issue or use an agent possible. The science (computer science) should finally make the people, the governed, the actual de facto governor in democracy.

6. I take this honor of hereby formally asking the folks in Norway to consider awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the "Supposedly less so enlightened" Korean people including myself, who in early days, among various activities, proposed the "outside" world contact initiative for the Cheonan peace, providing email addresses of all the foreign embassies in Korea, U.N., Hillary, Obama, and the foreign media.