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Controversy over South Korea's sunken ship

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Physicists' research casts doubt on idea that North Korean torpedo downed vessel.

In May, two months after the sinking of a South Korean warship, the country released a report blaming its northern neighbour. That report soon came under fire from South Korean opposition politicians and an influential South Korean civil liberties group. Now some scientists are lending their weight to the critique.

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  1. Lee, S.-H. & Yang, P. preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0680 (2010).

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Cyranoski, D. Controversy over South Korea's sunken ship. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.343

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