(メモ) Russia wants '100% proof' N.Korea sunk ship
2010年06月02日00:16
Russia wants '100% proof' N.Korea sunk ship
hu May 27, 5:48 am ET
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will not support efforts to punish North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship until it is fully convinced Pyongyang was behind the incident, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.
"We need to receive 100 percent proof of North Korea's role in the sinking of the corvette," the spokesman, Igor Lyakin-Frolov, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
"Our specialists are currently studying the materials of the investigation. We need to draw our own conclusions about what happened. Everything will depend on the situation and the body of evidence."
The comments came a day after Russia announced that it was sending a team of experts to South Korea to assess the evidence about North Korea's involvement in the sinking of the warship, which left 46 sailors dead.
In a separate report, a senior source in Russia's navy suggested that Moscow was unhappy about being excluded from the lengthy multinational investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan, a 1,200-tonne corvette.
The investigation -- which included experts from South Korea, the United States, Australia, Britain and Sweden -- concluded last week that there was overwhelming evidence that the ship had been sunk by a North Korean torpedo.
"With the participation of Russian specialists, the results of the investigation into the incident might have been more complete and objective," the Russian navy source told Interfax.
South Korea has cut trade ties with North Korea and is seeking diplomatic support for new United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang over the incident, seen as the worst provocation since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Pyongyang has denied any role in the sinking of the Cheonan, which went down in waters disputed by North and South Korea on March 26.
As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has the power to veto any new sanctions against North Korea over the deadly incident.
Russia, which has a short land border with North Korea, is set to hold major naval exercises in June in the Sea of Japan, close to the Korean Peninsula, which were planned before the current tensions broke out.
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In Korea, a semi-hopeful sign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/26/AR2010052600975_pf.html
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 27, 2010; A12
SEOUL -- Despite North Korea's vow this week to cut all economic and political ties with South Korea, an important symbol of cross-border economic cooperation appeared to remain intact and open for business Wednesday.
Production continued at the Kaesong industrial complex, a six-year-old factory park just north of the heavily armed border that separates North and South Korea. About 45,000 North Koreans went to work as usual for 121 South Korean companies in the complex, the sole remaining symbol of economic cooperation between the neighbors.
South Korea began anti-submarine exercises Thursday morning off its west coast, with 10 warships testing depth charges and naval guns. But the training occurred well away from a disputed sea border between the two Koreas, military officials told local media.
North Korea had threatened Tuesday that it would sever all relations with the South. Its move followed Seoul's imposition Monday of trade and other sanctions on Pyongyang for its apparent role in a torpedo attack on a South Korean naval ship two months ago that killed 46 sailors.
The North denies sinking the ship and has threatened war if there is any move to punish it. But its actions at Kaesong were not nearly as uncompromising as its rhetoric: It allowed several hundred South Korean managers and engineers to cross the border Wednesday and go to work.
It did expel at least eight South Korean government officials and cut North-South phone lines for some manufacturers. But one company official said that North Korean workers were allowed to work and that South Korean managers were allowed to manage.
"The situation at Kaesong at this moment is that nothing much has changed," said Song Ki-suk, former chairman of Korea Micro Filter, a South Korean auto parts company that employees 350 North Koreans.
That status quo is at risk. North Korea warned Wednesday that it would "totally ban" South Koreans from Kaesong if Seoul installs propaganda loudspeakers at the border, as it threatened to do early this week. The speakers were taken down in 2004, when relations between the two Koreas were less frosty.
The North is also threatening to blow up any speakers the South erects near the border.
Still, it appears that North Korea wants Kaesong to keep operating. The industrial park injects more than $60 million a year in rent, fees and workers' salaries into the country's moribund economy.
Pyongyang has periodically threatened to close the complex unless demands were met for higher rent, increased wages and other concessions. But those demands have had a history of softening or going away -- as the flow of hard currency quietly prevails over North Korean quibbles.
As Kaesong hummed along Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton paid a quick visit to Seoul to repeat that the Obama administration supports South Korea in blaming the North for the attack that sank the 1,200-ton Cheonan on March 26.
Clinton arrived here from Beijing, where she had urged Chinese leaders to accept the findings of an international investigation that found overwhelming evidence of North Korea's role in the vessel's sinking.
China is North Korea's largest trading partner and principal patron, and Chinese officials have declined to condemn the government of Kim Jong Il for the sinking of the ship. They say they are still examining evidence and have called for calm on all sides.
In remarks to reporters, Clinton suggested that China may continue to be a hard sell, as the United States, South Korea and Japan prepare to press the U.N. Security Council to condemn North Korea for an unprovoked attack.
"We hope that China will take us up on our offer to really understand the details of what happened and the objectivity of the investigation that led to the conclusions," she said.
There have been reports this week that Kim's government, in a cable radio broadcast to North Korean homes, has told the army to be ready for war. But South Korea's military said Wednesday that it saw no indications of unusual activity by troops in the North.
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韓国軍艦沈没事件その後
http://tanakanews.com/100531korea.htm
(前略)
米軍や米政府は、全体として情報管理能力が高いくせに、今回の天安艦事件
の調査報告書のような、ずさんなことをやる。この手の奇妙な稚拙さは、イラ
ク戦争やアフガン戦争、９１１事件の捜査、グアンタナモ収容所、イラン核問
題などで、連続的に発揮されている（最近では共和党のカール・ローブが「オ
バマのカトリーナになる」と分析したメキシコ湾のＢＰの原油流出事件が、こ
れに加わりつつある）。
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268752362770856.html
Rove: Yes, the Gulf Spill is Obama's Katrina
諜報や外交の部分的な失敗はどこの国でもあるが、９１１以来の米国の大失
敗の連続は、米国の覇権を根幹から崩壊させており、私には単なる過失と考え
られない。この失敗の結果、世界の覇権構造が多極化している。そのため、米
国の中枢には自国を意図的に失敗させて世界を多極化したい勢力（隠れ多極主
義者。ネオコンなど）がいると、私は推察してきた。
隠れ多極主義者の常套策は、米国の覇権を恒久的に維持したい軍産複合体や
イスラエルに近づき「テロ戦争」に代表される冷戦型の「米国中心の同盟体と、
敵国との恒久的な対立状態」を作り出す戦略を手がけ、それを稚拙かつ過剰に
やって失敗させ、逆に米国の敵国や非米的な諸大国（ＢＲＩＣ）を強化し、
世界を多極化させることだ。
北朝鮮犯人説が濡れ衣であるとすると、今回の天安艦事件は、この隠れ多極
主義の作戦の枠組みに当てはまる。イランの核兵器開発と同様、米英と同盟国
（イラン問題ではイスラエル、天安艦問題では日韓）の方が実は間違っている
のだが、英米が動かしている世界のマスコミは、北朝鮮やイランが極悪だと喧
伝する。しかしそのうちに、実は米英の方が間違っているということを、途上
諸国や新興諸国の人々が気づき、欧米の世論も揺らぐ。国連など国際社会では、
米英の方が間違っているという見方が強まり、その線に沿って中露が仲裁を
かけようとするが、米国は拒否する。人類の善悪観を操作して覇権を維持する、
大英帝国以来の戦略が崩壊していく。
その時点で、米国の同盟国は、とことん米国に追随して、善悪が逆転する新
世界秩序の中で悪者になることに甘んじるか、米国から同盟関係を切られるこ
とを覚悟で、非米側に方向転換するしかない（日本はこれ以外に「政治鎖国す
る」「いないふりをする」という手があるので危機感が薄い）。
(後略)
hu May 27, 5:48 am ET
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will not support efforts to punish North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship until it is fully convinced Pyongyang was behind the incident, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.
"We need to receive 100 percent proof of North Korea's role in the sinking of the corvette," the spokesman, Igor Lyakin-Frolov, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
"Our specialists are currently studying the materials of the investigation. We need to draw our own conclusions about what happened. Everything will depend on the situation and the body of evidence."
The comments came a day after Russia announced that it was sending a team of experts to South Korea to assess the evidence about North Korea's involvement in the sinking of the warship, which left 46 sailors dead.
In a separate report, a senior source in Russia's navy suggested that Moscow was unhappy about being excluded from the lengthy multinational investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan, a 1,200-tonne corvette.
The investigation -- which included experts from South Korea, the United States, Australia, Britain and Sweden -- concluded last week that there was overwhelming evidence that the ship had been sunk by a North Korean torpedo.
"With the participation of Russian specialists, the results of the investigation into the incident might have been more complete and objective," the Russian navy source told Interfax.
South Korea has cut trade ties with North Korea and is seeking diplomatic support for new United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang over the incident, seen as the worst provocation since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Pyongyang has denied any role in the sinking of the Cheonan, which went down in waters disputed by North and South Korea on March 26.
As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has the power to veto any new sanctions against North Korea over the deadly incident.
Russia, which has a short land border with North Korea, is set to hold major naval exercises in June in the Sea of Japan, close to the Korean Peninsula, which were planned before the current tensions broke out.
================================
In Korea, a semi-hopeful sign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/26/AR2010052600975_pf.html
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 27, 2010; A12
SEOUL -- Despite North Korea's vow this week to cut all economic and political ties with South Korea, an important symbol of cross-border economic cooperation appeared to remain intact and open for business Wednesday.
Production continued at the Kaesong industrial complex, a six-year-old factory park just north of the heavily armed border that separates North and South Korea. About 45,000 North Koreans went to work as usual for 121 South Korean companies in the complex, the sole remaining symbol of economic cooperation between the neighbors.
South Korea began anti-submarine exercises Thursday morning off its west coast, with 10 warships testing depth charges and naval guns. But the training occurred well away from a disputed sea border between the two Koreas, military officials told local media.
North Korea had threatened Tuesday that it would sever all relations with the South. Its move followed Seoul's imposition Monday of trade and other sanctions on Pyongyang for its apparent role in a torpedo attack on a South Korean naval ship two months ago that killed 46 sailors.
The North denies sinking the ship and has threatened war if there is any move to punish it. But its actions at Kaesong were not nearly as uncompromising as its rhetoric: It allowed several hundred South Korean managers and engineers to cross the border Wednesday and go to work.
It did expel at least eight South Korean government officials and cut North-South phone lines for some manufacturers. But one company official said that North Korean workers were allowed to work and that South Korean managers were allowed to manage.
"The situation at Kaesong at this moment is that nothing much has changed," said Song Ki-suk, former chairman of Korea Micro Filter, a South Korean auto parts company that employees 350 North Koreans.
That status quo is at risk. North Korea warned Wednesday that it would "totally ban" South Koreans from Kaesong if Seoul installs propaganda loudspeakers at the border, as it threatened to do early this week. The speakers were taken down in 2004, when relations between the two Koreas were less frosty.
The North is also threatening to blow up any speakers the South erects near the border.
Still, it appears that North Korea wants Kaesong to keep operating. The industrial park injects more than $60 million a year in rent, fees and workers' salaries into the country's moribund economy.
Pyongyang has periodically threatened to close the complex unless demands were met for higher rent, increased wages and other concessions. But those demands have had a history of softening or going away -- as the flow of hard currency quietly prevails over North Korean quibbles.
As Kaesong hummed along Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton paid a quick visit to Seoul to repeat that the Obama administration supports South Korea in blaming the North for the attack that sank the 1,200-ton Cheonan on March 26.
Clinton arrived here from Beijing, where she had urged Chinese leaders to accept the findings of an international investigation that found overwhelming evidence of North Korea's role in the vessel's sinking.
China is North Korea's largest trading partner and principal patron, and Chinese officials have declined to condemn the government of Kim Jong Il for the sinking of the ship. They say they are still examining evidence and have called for calm on all sides.
In remarks to reporters, Clinton suggested that China may continue to be a hard sell, as the United States, South Korea and Japan prepare to press the U.N. Security Council to condemn North Korea for an unprovoked attack.
"We hope that China will take us up on our offer to really understand the details of what happened and the objectivity of the investigation that led to the conclusions," she said.
There have been reports this week that Kim's government, in a cable radio broadcast to North Korean homes, has told the army to be ready for war. But South Korea's military said Wednesday that it saw no indications of unusual activity by troops in the North.
======================================
韓国軍艦沈没事件その後
http://tanakanews.com/100531korea.htm
(前略)
米軍や米政府は、全体として情報管理能力が高いくせに、今回の天安艦事件
の調査報告書のような、ずさんなことをやる。この手の奇妙な稚拙さは、イラ
ク戦争やアフガン戦争、９１１事件の捜査、グアンタナモ収容所、イラン核問
題などで、連続的に発揮されている（最近では共和党のカール・ローブが「オ
バマのカトリーナになる」と分析したメキシコ湾のＢＰの原油流出事件が、こ
れに加わりつつある）。
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268752362770856.html
Rove: Yes, the Gulf Spill is Obama's Katrina
諜報や外交の部分的な失敗はどこの国でもあるが、９１１以来の米国の大失
敗の連続は、米国の覇権を根幹から崩壊させており、私には単なる過失と考え
られない。この失敗の結果、世界の覇権構造が多極化している。そのため、米
国の中枢には自国を意図的に失敗させて世界を多極化したい勢力（隠れ多極主
義者。ネオコンなど）がいると、私は推察してきた。
隠れ多極主義者の常套策は、米国の覇権を恒久的に維持したい軍産複合体や
イスラエルに近づき「テロ戦争」に代表される冷戦型の「米国中心の同盟体と、
敵国との恒久的な対立状態」を作り出す戦略を手がけ、それを稚拙かつ過剰に
やって失敗させ、逆に米国の敵国や非米的な諸大国（ＢＲＩＣ）を強化し、
世界を多極化させることだ。
北朝鮮犯人説が濡れ衣であるとすると、今回の天安艦事件は、この隠れ多極
主義の作戦の枠組みに当てはまる。イランの核兵器開発と同様、米英と同盟国
（イラン問題ではイスラエル、天安艦問題では日韓）の方が実は間違っている
のだが、英米が動かしている世界のマスコミは、北朝鮮やイランが極悪だと喧
伝する。しかしそのうちに、実は米英の方が間違っているということを、途上
諸国や新興諸国の人々が気づき、欧米の世論も揺らぐ。国連など国際社会では、
米英の方が間違っているという見方が強まり、その線に沿って中露が仲裁を
かけようとするが、米国は拒否する。人類の善悪観を操作して覇権を維持する、
大英帝国以来の戦略が崩壊していく。
その時点で、米国の同盟国は、とことん米国に追随して、善悪が逆転する新
世界秩序の中で悪者になることに甘んじるか、米国から同盟関係を切られるこ
とを覚悟で、非米側に方向転換するしかない（日本はこれ以外に「政治鎖国す
る」「いないふりをする」という手があるので危機感が薄い）。
(後略)
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