South Korea to accuse North Korea of sinking its warship ealier this year.

South Korea is ready to accuse North Korea for sinking its warship,which killed 46 sailors on March 26, according to government officials and local reports. The Yonhap news agency said that Korean Foreign Ministry intends to give scientific and objective to prove the involvement of North Korean in this attack. Its attempt to using multinational investigation is not a surprise as to gain international support for economic and diplomatic sanctions against the North once the evidence is released.

Investigators established what they said was a critical forensic link when they matched metal pieces and traces of explosive recovered from the ship and the site where it sank with a stray North Korean torpedo secured by the South seven years ago, Yonhap and other South Korean news outlets reported. They also said they had found a fragment believed to be part of a North Korean torpedo’s propeller.
And if the result is true that North Korea is in charge of the fierce attack, the tension between these two countries in Korean Peninsula will be worst since the Korean War.

However, this case has also raised some political disputes inside political system of Korea. President Lee Myung Bak is accused of using the anti-North Korean movement to win conservative votes for his party, by opposition candidates. One of them said that the world will laugh at the country if the government can’t obtain enough factual evidence to defend its accusation. At the same time, South Korea still looks forward to China’s back in supporting resolution denouncing the North.

Submitted by Yen Do.