It took me a while to find this artical, but I finally found a link to it in the Wikpedia Article covering the sinking of the Cheonan.
Apparently, despite their largely neutral stance, China has vowed that the perpetrators of the sinking of the ROKN ship will recieve no protection from them. Story here.
So, it's pretty much as I thought: China is politely asking to be left out of this, using words that will not enrage the Koreans on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone else in the world thinks that N. Korea oughta owe up to what's happened. The evidence is stacked against them, after all, and I think the S. Korean will settle amicably for reparitions.
Really, I think Kim Jong Il missed out on a golden opportunity. He could have condemned the people responsible for this and extended reparitions to the families of the dead sailors and to the S. Korean government. It's either that, or he actually did order the sinking and is deathly afraid of that order being tracked all the way back to him - to the point where he'd rather risk war.
Still not happy about this. Still worried that any opening salvos are gonna involve missiles with dirty-bomb warheads aimed at Tokyo. I'll talk more about my current experiences when it all blows over and OPSEC no longer applies. And I'll have pretty pictures of US Navy at work, too.
Apparently, despite their largely neutral stance, China has vowed that the perpetrators of the sinking of the ROKN ship will recieve no protection from them. Story here.
So, it's pretty much as I thought: China is politely asking to be left out of this, using words that will not enrage the Koreans on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone else in the world thinks that N. Korea oughta owe up to what's happened. The evidence is stacked against them, after all, and I think the S. Korean will settle amicably for reparitions.
Really, I think Kim Jong Il missed out on a golden opportunity. He could have condemned the people responsible for this and extended reparitions to the families of the dead sailors and to the S. Korean government. It's either that, or he actually did order the sinking and is deathly afraid of that order being tracked all the way back to him - to the point where he'd rather risk war.
Still not happy about this. Still worried that any opening salvos are gonna involve missiles with dirty-bomb warheads aimed at Tokyo. I'll talk more about my current experiences when it all blows over and OPSEC no longer applies. And I'll have pretty pictures of US Navy at work, too.