South Korean Ship Sinks After Explosion

xxalxx · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:19

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported an explosion in the rear of the 1,200-ton ship, but the official said he could not confirm the report.
Early reports suspected a torpedo attack from a North Korean ship.
Yonhap reported that another South Korean ship fired shots toward an unidentified target in the direction of North Korea.

Not good at all.

Story Here : LINK

Cosimo · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:21

More:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8589507.stm

Probably another tiff between north and south.

JBuk · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:25

Nuke it from the sea

qqg3 · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:26

Ouch.

xxalxx · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:27

JBuk said:
Nuke it from the sea

Seems they have got the idea first

Earlier on Friday, North Korea's military accused the United States and South Korea of trying to topple the Pyongyang regime and said it was ready to launch nuclear attacks to frustrate any provocations.
The military General Staff cited a South Korean newspaper report as evidence of "desperate moves of the US imperialists and the South Korean puppet warmongers" for regime change.
A General Staff spokesman warned the official Korean Central News Agency that there would be a retaliation for any attack.
"Those who seek to bring down the system in the DPRK (North Korea)... will fall victim to the unprecedented nuclear strikes of the invincible army," he said.

Dinomania · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:27

simulatorman said:
More:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8589507.stm

Probably another tiff between north and south.

Anyone else see the article above and wonder what it was doing in Scottish waters?

Burnsy2023 · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:27

The DPRK are all hot air. They would never, ever launch a nuclear attack or even start a conventional war.

KennyBhoy · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:28

And so it begins.......

TheMightyTen · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:28

The North flexing it's muscles. The Americans will buy them a new one, this sort of thing seems to get reported once/twice a year on slow news days but seemingly happens more often.

qqg3 · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:28

KennyBhoy said:
And so it begins.......

It could all blow up. Or, the sensible thing, would be too ignore it.

LiE · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:29

lol those crazy Koreans

craptakular · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:29

sara said:
Anyone else see the article above and wonder what it was doing in Scottish waters?

Not really, because I have never been to Seoul in Scotland lol

Greenlizard0 · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:32

Hmm...

sara said:
Anyone else see the article above and wonder what it was doing in Scottish waters?

Aaaaii?

scorza · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:33

TheMightyTen said:
The North flexing it's muscles. The Americans will buy them a new one, this sort of thing seems to get reported once/twice a year on slow news days but seemingly happens more often.

Can the Americans buy some new sailors? to replace the ones killed.

scorza · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:34

sara said:
Anyone else see the article above and wonder what it was doing in Scottish waters?

I get it

G-MAN2004 · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:34

Greenlizard0 said:
Hmm...

Aaaaii?

Look at the picture in the article.

Fragalot · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:35

nothing will come of this

Greenlizard0 · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:38

G-MAN2004 said:
Look at the picture in the article.

scorza said:
I get it

Flown right over my head, what is it?

Sinque · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:42

Ah, Koreans... Gotta love 'em!

TheMightyTen · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:47

scorza said:
Can the Americans buy some new sailors? to replace the ones killed.

Give me a link to any confirmed deaths. When you have DPRK/South Korean skirmishes the reporting is often muddied by smoke and mirrors from both sides. They both constantly push to see how far they can go. Also the US need something to take the news attention away from it's disastrous visit by the Israelies