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Originally Posted by CC1
I have read that the S Koreans are privately saying they don't think it was N. Korea. More likely some kind of accident. I sure hope so! That would be a huge provocation if N. Korea did do it.
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Would this have been considered much of a provocation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858
What about the attempted assassination of your president that killed 4 members of the cabinet?
http://www.britannica.com/facts/10/4...g-four-members
Or the attempted assassination of your President that left him wounded and his wife dead?
http://www.veoh.com/browse/morelike/v1106234E3tfPYas
Nothing's gonna happen. It's just the North showing their displeasure over the recent U.S/South Korean joint military exercises - if it wasn't really an accident after all.
My guess is that they hit an old mine that may have been deliberately set "adrift" by the North. The "flock of birds" canard is just cover so that South Korean ultra-nationalists don't have an excuse to get too riled up.
When faced off in a "fair" shoot out, the South usually has out shot the North.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Yeonpyeong