Obama backs South Korea stance on ship's sinking

Barack Obama on Monday told military commanders to work with South Korean troops "to ensure readiness and to deter future aggression" from North Korea.

President Lee Myung-bak announced that his country was suspending trade with North Korea, closing its waters to the North's ships and adopting a newly-aggressive military posture toward its neighbor because of the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. South Korean military officials announced the results of an official investigation into the sinking of the ship, the Cheonan, which concluded that North Korea fired a torpedo that cut the vessel in half.

"We endorse President Lee's demand that North Korea immediately apologize and punish those responsible for the attack, and, most importantly, stop its belligerent and threatening behavior," the statement said.

North Korea has denied that it sunk the warship, which went down on March 26, killing 46 sailors.

I think that Obama is taking a good stance on this situation. These two countries really need to work things out. And in the mean time investigators really need to figure out what really happened so that people aren't pointing fingers when really they had nothing to do with it.


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