tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post1600594885299400341..comments2023-11-12T00:30:15.262+09:00Comments on Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*: NYT on "the Chonan effect"kushibohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-12600556672219955202010-06-08T02:07:45.937+09:002010-06-08T02:07:45.937+09:00Well, to add to Tomek's comment, if somebody e...Well, to add to Tomek's comment, if somebody else or another group DID plan this and make it out to look like NK's regime, I'm sure they didn't plan on killing the 47 sailors. Remember, it's not easy to plan to hit a ship in a precise spot that won't do any damage. That's like when somebody shoots you without intending to kill you (ie- through the leg or soft tissue). So, although I don't think it was planned (as you said, it's "sick"), if it WAS, I'm sure the deaths weren't in the scheme..maybe just badly executed.LastnameKimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02166790976278749188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-4410809177225162842010-06-02T17:21:42.353+09:002010-06-02T17:21:42.353+09:00"it's sick to insist in the face of so mu..."it's sick to insist in the face of so much evidence to the contrary that someone in the ROK government deliberately killed these dozens of sailors for some hope for political gain in local elections."<br /><br />I thought that argument is that they want to cover accident as NK provocation or just try to hard to convince public that NK did it (even if really did).<br /><br />Idea that they actually killed those people FOR the story is indeed ridiculous.Tomekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842300904498125524noreply@blogger.com