segunda-feira, 31 de maio de 2010

South Korea takes battle over sunken warship to Twitter

By the CNN Wire Staff


(CNN) -- South Korea's defense ministry will show wreckage of a sunken ship to a group of Twitter users in an effort to dispel doubts among young skeptics about its investigation blaming North Korea for attacking the vessel, state media said Monday.
Twenty users of the microblogging site will have a chance to review the evidence Friday after applying through the defense ministry's Twitter page, the Yonhap news agency reported. A group of college reporters and defense bloggers will also be invited to the presentation, which is part of a push to win over younger skeptics, Yonhap said.
A South Korean report written by an international team of investigators accuses North Korea of firing a torpedo that sank the Cheonan warship in March, killing 46 sailors.
North Korea has denied any involvement in the sinking and criticized the report's accuracy, claiming people who disagreed with the investigators' assertions were expelled from the investigation team, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.