Sadly, my spanish is not good enough to understand all that is being said in the video--but I do remember hearing that Fidel had previously written about the sinking of the South Korean navel vessel, arguing that it was not caused by North Korea as claimed, but more likely the result of a U.S. mine.
The consensus within the progressive community in South Korea is that the South Korean government is clearly lying when it claims that it has evidence linking North Korean to the sinking. The South Korean government made these charges hoping to win big in recent local elections; much to their displeasure they took a beating. Here is a link to a recent piece that highlights the weakness of the South Korean claims: http://japanfocus.org/-Seunghun-Lee/3382 if you read the article you will be shocked at how weak the official claims actually are. As to the actual cause of the sinking, no one is quite sure, but the general feeling within South Korean progressive circles has shifted from blaming a U.S. mine to a collision with a reef, which was in fact what the coast guard was initially told had happened when called to come to the rescue of the sailors. Regardless, what is happening around this issue is very similar to what happened before the Iraq invasion, when the US put forward all sorts of claims of weapons of mass destruction to justify its invasion. The media just repeats what it is told, in this case by the South Korean and US governments, never giving any legitimacy to those that challenge the official story. Marty On 7/13/2010 11:23 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > In a panel devoted to discussing the danger of a nuclear war in the > Korean peninsula or in the Middle East. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5kumJ3vs4 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
