Image: United Nations officers inspect what is alleged to be a North Korean torpedo.Song Kyung-Seok/Getty ImagesDoubts Surface On North Korea's Role In Ship Sinking -- L.A. Times
Some in South Korea dispute the official version of events: that a North Korean torpedo ripped apart the Cheonan.
Reporting from Seoul — The way U.S. officials see it, there's little mystery behind the most notorious shipwreck in recent Korean history.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls the evidence "overwhelming" that the Cheonan, a South Korean warship that sank in March, was hit by a North Korean torpedo. Vice President Joe Biden has cited the South Korean-led panel investigating the sinking as a model of transparency.
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More News On The Sinking Of The Cheonan
Questions raised over Korean torpedo claims -- Nature
Now, doubt over Pyongyang's role in ship sinking -- Times Of India
Scientists raise doubts over North's hand behind sinking of South Korean ship 'Cheonan' -- DNAIndia
My Comment: OK .... even if the Nature magazine story is correct .... how did the Cheonan split into two and sink immediately after that.
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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.
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, aforementioned Shin Sang-chul got (criminally) sued for defamation by a government official for expressing disagreement over the current South Korean regime's version of the Cheonan Incident.
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: http://nature.com/news/2010/080710/full/news.2010.343.html;
"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/
4. Compare and contrast.
911; Al-Qaida; We did it(, was not wrong, not sorry about it and we will do it again).
Cheonan; North Korea; We didn't do it (therefore, presumably, was wrong, sorry about it and we will not do it).
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.' (And, it hardly gives the North any payoff.)
5. Representative democracy is not pure democracy. (Pure)Direct democracy is now (or becoming) possible, through recent developments in computer science and technology, making private Internet-voting, democratic on-line discussions and cheap instantaneous micro referendum 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 Sweden to consider awarding a "Nobel" Peace Prize to the "Supposedly less so enlightened" Korean people including myself.
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