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It’s a reenactment, but investigators say this is what happened when a North Korean torpedo struck a South Korean warship. From CBS News world headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. Relations with North Korea have gone downhill since a South Korean warship was sunk in March, an attack blamed on the North. As David Martin reports, the 46 sailors who died never had a chance.

 

Watch what happens when a heavy weight torpedo explodes beneath the ship. This is an out of service Australian warship being used for target practice. But it’s exactly what investigators from the US and South Korea concluded happened to the Cheonan which was ripped in two last marches off the west coast of the Korean peninsula.

 

Now watch in slow motion. As the 500-pound warhead detonates directly below midships선체중앙부, lifting the ship out of the water and sending its superstructure overboard, bending the steel girders대들보 that make up its spine척추. A second later, the ship crashes back into the water, breaking its spine, splitting it in two and sending it to the bottom. When the Cheoan went down, 46 sailors died, and the blame was put squarely on North Korea.

 

"To date, we have seen nothing that gives us any reason to believe that North Korea is ready to end its provocative belligerent적대적인 behaviors." The sinking of the Cheonan took place under the cover of darkness. But when investigators raised the severed잘라진 hull and brought it back to port, readings from seismic stations, testimony of surviving sailors and analysis of the bent and twisted metal all led to the conclusion the Cheonan had been sunk by a torpedo with a 500-pound warhead.

 

There was no proof of who fired the shot. Then South Korean fishermen dredged up건져올리다 the remnants of this torpedo from the ocean bottom. The corrosion on the metal parts indicated it had been underwater from about the same time as the Cheonan was sunk, and its design exactly matched that of a North Korean torpedo. It was an act of war although the North Koreans deny they did it, the only real mystery is why they did it. David Martin, CBS News, California.

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