6/08/2010

The Cheonan Incident

Below is an article which was forwarded to me. The readers shall read it objectively and find his own conclusion. I will try to attach the photographs that came with it. If the facts are proven to be true, my God, the South Korean naval personnel were simply sacrificial lambs and Lee Myung Bak being led to run in circles. The article is by Wayne Madsen. Online Journal Contributing Writer. Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report. Copyright © 2010 WayneMadenReport.com Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report Beijing suspects false flag attack on South Korean corvette Carried : Friday, 28-May-2010 http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5930.shtml Navy soldiers stand guard near the wreckage of the naval vessel Cheonan, which was sunk on March 26 near the maritime border with North Korea, at the Second Fleet Command's naval base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, May 19, 2010. South Korea said on May 20 that evidence was overwhelming that a North Korean submarine fired the torpedo that sank the navy ship in March, killing 46 sailors WMR's intelligence sources in Asia suspect that the March attack on the South Korean Navy anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette, the Cheonan, was a false flag attack designed to appear as coming from North Korea. One of the main purposes for increasing tensions on the Korean peninsula was to apply pressure on Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to reverse course on moving the U.S. Marine Corps base off Okinawa. Hatoyama has admitted that the tensions over the sinking of the Cheonan played a large part in his decision to allow the U.S. Marines to remain on Okinawa. Hatoyama's decision has resulted in a split in the ruling center-left coalition government, a development welcome in Washington, with Mizuho Fukushima, the Social Democratic Party leader threatening to bolt the coalition over the Okinawa reversal. The Cheonan was sunk near Baengnyeong Island, a westernmost spot that is far from the South Korean coast, but opposite the North Korean coast. The island is heavily militarized and within artillery fire range of North Korean coastal defenses, which lie across a narrow channel. The Cheonan, an ASW corvette, was decked out with state-of-the-art sonar, plus it was operating in waters with extensive hydrophone sonar arrays and acoustic underwater sensors. There is no South Korean sonar or audio evidence of a torpedo, submarine or mini-sub in the area. Since there is next to no shipping in the channel, the sea was silent at the time of the sinking. However, Baengnyeong Island hosts a joint US-South Korea military intelligence base and the US Navy SEALS operate out of the base. In addition, four U.S. Navy ships were in the area, part of the joint U.S-South Korean Exercise Foal Eagle, during the sinking of the Cheonan. An investigation of the suspect torpedo's metallic and chemical fingerprints show it to be of German manufacture. There are suspicions that the US Navy SEALS maintains a sampling of European torpedoes for sake of plausible deniability for false flag attacks. Also, Berlin does not sell torpedoes to North Korea, however, Germany does maintain a close joint submarine and submarine weapons development program with Israel. The presence of the USNS Salvor, one of the participants in Foal Eagle, so close to Baengnyeong Island during the sinking of the South Korean corvette also raises questions. The Salvor, a civilian Navy salvage ship, which participated in mine laying activities for the Thai Marines in the Gulf of Thailand in 2006, was present near the time of the blast with a complement of 12 deep sea divers. Beijing, satisfied with North Korea's Kim Jong Il's claim of innocence after a hurried train trip from Pyongyang to Beijing, suspects the U.S. Navy's role in the Cheonan's sinking, with particular suspicion on the role of the Salvor. The suspicions are as follows: 1. The Salvor engaged in a seabed mine-installation operation, in other words, attaching horizontally fired anti-submarine mines on the sea floor in the channel. 2. The Salvor was doing routine inspection and maintenance on seabed mines, and put them into an electronic active mode (hair trigger release) as part of the inspection program. 3. A SEALS diver attached a magnetic mine to the Cheonan, as part of a covert program aimed at influencing public opinion in South Korea, Japan and China. The Korean peninsula tensions have conveniently overshadowed all other agenda items on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visits to Beijing and Seoul.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Makes little difference. They just continue to hammer, into people's minds, their side of the story that it was the North Koreans who did it.

They also have all the poodles and their mouthpieces supporting and singing the chorus, so people like Wayne Madsen and whose who dispute their story will be drowned out.

Repeating their version on all the official media controlled by the empire and their poodles every day will make the lies become he truth.

I believe the previous Japanese PM knew the truth and could not live with his conscience.

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...

If this is the true, I feel very sorry for the Korean people and for all the silly Asians that have been taken in by the fabricated truth.

Anonymous said...

Some Asian and Asean Leaders are only interested in powers and money. What happen to their countries they ruled for a short term is secondary. Having made enough, they will become global citizens, why would such leaders care about their countries?

patriot

Ⓜatilah $ingapura⚠️ said...

Quite possible. A false flag attack is definitely possible, but I think redbean jumps his own gun when he claims that one can be "objective" by simply reading this hypothesis.

Geo-politics is full of intrigue -- it is rarely possible to get the whole story or even to get enough irrefutable evidence to reach an "objective" conclusion.

redbean seems to have made up his own mind and is drunk on the idea of a conspiracy -- he does this without any proof (err... news reports and hypothesis do not constitute "proof"). Maybe he has crystal balls :)

Anonymous said...

"it was operating in waters with extensive hydrophone sonar arrays and acoustic underwater sensors."

This is a FALSE statement!! In no way will China allows South Korea or USA to plant extensive hydrophone sonar arrays and acoustic underwater sensors near the entrance of her naval base which also houses China's conventional and nuclear submarmines.

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...

Matilah, please read this carefully.

'The readers shall read it objectively and find his own conclusion....

If the facts are proven to be true, my God, the South Korean naval personnel were simply sacrificial lambs and Lee Myung Bak being led to run in circles.'

Who is drunk?

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...

If the sonars and acoustic equipment are in Korean territorial waters, the Chinese can do nothing about it.

There is a lot of truth in it as the two Koreans are theoretically at war and closely monitoring each other's activities like a hawk.

Anonymous said...

The Koreans(South and North or North and South) should settle their problem themselves.

Make love and patch up or fight till the last man stands and be united. Solve it once and for all. Getting others involved in their domestic dispute and conflict complicate matters.

Alternatively, all other nations should leave the Koreans alone. Nations wanting to interfere in the Koreans Affairs must premise themselves as peacemakers and not add troubles to the Koreans and other sovereign nations.

patriot

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...

Ever since the annexation of Korea by the Japanese, the Koreans have been the puppets of foreign powers. After the Japanese surrender in WW2, the Americans returned power to the colonial Japanese instead of the Koreans.

And the US and USSR decided among themselves to divide Korea at the 38 parallel. Then with the Cold War, the Koreans became a tool to the super powers.

Kim Il Sung could have reunite the two Koreas in a civil war but the US, while controlling the UN, intervened and defeated the North Koreans in the Korean War. But a stalemate was reached again at the 38 parallel when China entered the war.

And they have been divided till today, and bickering at each other.

Anonymous said...

Yo Matilah, I noticed you are the drunk one here, attacking everyone right or wrong without reading what people really wrote. And worst, stuffing your subjective views into everyone else's throat and blamed others for doing it.

You are the one flying a false flag!