calendar>>July 23. 2010 Juch 99
Scene of Alleged "Cheonan" Explosion Confirmed to Be False
Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Media Verification Committee for Probe into the Truth behind the Case of Warship "Cheonan" grouping the Journalists Association and two other media organizations claimed on July 20 through media report that the puppet authorities fabricated the warship case.

The organization cited various facts to prove that the scene of "Cheonan" explosion announced by the "joint investigation team" was false.

Recalling that the team claimed the scene of the warship explosion was the place where the ship was after its bow was cut from the stern, that is, after the ship was sunk, the organization refuted this assertion, saying the actual scene of the alleged explosion was the place where the ship was before being broken into two pieces, that is, at least 400 meters away northwest of the stated place.

Now that the scene of the explosion was confirmed to be false, the whole course of the search for the torpedo wreckage and its "salvage" conducted by the team lost its scientific ground, the organization charged.

It urged the team to make a scientific clarification of whether it could be possible for the torpedo propelling body, a gas turbine room and the stern to be almost in the same place even though they remarkably differ in size and weight and might be different in the time of their movements under the sea before their salvage.

The confirmation of the wrong scene of explosion in the wake of the false statement about "water column", the concealment of damaged propeller, the lie about the design of torpedo, argument about the period in which the torpedo got rusty and the twisted results of analysis of adsorptive brought into bolder relief the falsity of the "results of investigation", concluded the organization.

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