Blame Game over Sinking of Korean Warship

WASHINGTON - The explosion and sinking of a South Korean war ship in the West or Yellow Sea near the North Korean coast set off alarm bells in Washington and Seoul. The question was whether North Korea was again making good on threats to challenge South Korean control beneath the "northern limit line" (NLL) set by the United Nations Command three years after the Korean War ended in 1953.

Now both South Korea and the US want to tamp down tensions, to find the evidence that explains away the explosion, which claimed the lives of up to 46 of the ship's 104 sailors in the worst incident to occur in the disputed waters off the west coast of North and South Korea since the Korean War. The last thing