UN to study case for truce violation
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May 23, 2010, Sunday
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THE United Nations Command launched a probe yesterday into whether the deadly sinking of a South Korean navy ship blamed on North Korea violated the Korean War truce agreement.
Pyongyang denounced the investigation as a "bogus mechanism."
Representatives from 11 countries - South Korea, United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Turkey, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden - will review findings of a multinational investigation into the sinking.
They will determine the scope of any North Korean armistice violations, UN Command spokesman Kim Young-kyu said.
An international team of civilian and military investigators declared on Thursday that a North Korean submarine fired a homing torpedo on March 26, ripping the 1,200-ton Cheonan in two. Fifty-eight sailors were rescued, but 46 died in South Korea's worst military disaster since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Pyongyang has vehemently denied any role in the sinking and claimed that South Korea fabricated evidence to frame it.
North Korea asked on Thursday to send its own team to inspect the sinking site in the Yellow Sea.
South Korea responded with a request to the UN Command's Military Armistice Commission, which oversees the truce, to conduct a probe separate from the multinational one.
Pyongyang denounced the investigation as a "bogus mechanism."
Representatives from 11 countries - South Korea, United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Turkey, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden - will review findings of a multinational investigation into the sinking.
They will determine the scope of any North Korean armistice violations, UN Command spokesman Kim Young-kyu said.
An international team of civilian and military investigators declared on Thursday that a North Korean submarine fired a homing torpedo on March 26, ripping the 1,200-ton Cheonan in two. Fifty-eight sailors were rescued, but 46 died in South Korea's worst military disaster since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Pyongyang has vehemently denied any role in the sinking and claimed that South Korea fabricated evidence to frame it.
North Korea asked on Thursday to send its own team to inspect the sinking site in the Yellow Sea.
South Korea responded with a request to the UN Command's Military Armistice Commission, which oversees the truce, to conduct a probe separate from the multinational one.
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