대부분의 외신 기자가 한국 정부 측에서 흘린 내용이랑 비슷하게 발표하고 있는데요, 그중에서 CBS news가 아주 중요한 사실 하나를 기사 중간에 끼워넣고 있습니다. 이는 우리나라 신문이나 대부분의 외신에서 볼 수 없고, 또한 스쳐 지나가기 쉽지만, 매우 중요한 사실 하나입니다.
세계 여러 나라의 조사단이 이번 천안함 분석을 위해 조사단을 파견한 것은 다들 아실 테고. 한국 정부측의 지금까지 발표 내용으로 보면, 북한의 어뢰로 인해 천안함이 두 동강이 났다는 결론에 있어, 이를 객관화시키기 위해서 모든 외국 조사단이 북한의 어뢰가 원인이라는 결론에 동의를 했다고 주장했던 것 같은데요. 꼭 그렇지만은 않은 것 같습니다.
South Korea to Unveil Evidence of North Sinking Navy Ship 출처 : http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20005423-503543.html
Later tonight - Thursday morning in Asia - the South Koreans are expected to drop a long- expected shoe and unveil the evidence that a North Korean torpedo sank a South Korean patrol ship last March, killing 46 sailors.
North Korea has already denied it, but the evidence recovered after the sunken ship was raised from the bottom of the Yellow Sea is compelling. Traces of explosives and shards of metal match the materials used in a North Korean torpedo that fell into South Korean hands several years ago.
The U.S., Britain and Australia - all of which helped in the investigation - are all prepared to back up the findings. Only Sweden, which also sent investigators, is a reluctant partner in blaming the North Koreans.
There was never much mystery about who done it. The real mystery is what to do about it.
Sinking another nation's ship is an act of war. But the North and South are still technically at war, observing only an armistice which ended the Korean War. No one expects this incident to trigger a full-scale war.
It would be a disaster for North Korea, South Korea, the U.S. and China. The North would lose, the South would suffer horrendous casualties (Seoul is within range of North Korean artillery), and the U.S. (which still has tens of thousands of troops there) and China would have to pick up the pieces.
But South Korea cannot simply ignore the sinking of one of its ships and the loss of life that went with it. Economic reprisals seem to be the weapon of choice.
The North and South do a small amount of business, but it would take international sanctions enacted by the United Nations to have a maximum impact, possible only if China - North Korea's chief trading partner and benefactor - goes along.
China is reluctant to take any action that might trigger the total collapse of North Korea since it would almost certainly result in streams of refugees coming across the border.
In other words, North Korea might get off lightly for what amounts to murder. It wouldn't be the first time, and nobody seems to have a good idea how to make it the last.