Heavy Torpedoes

Heavy torpedoes don't hit ships: they explode beneath their centerline and crack the hull.

The Cheonan is a corvette: a smaller local frigate. She was sunk by a a heavy torpedo launched by a North Korean sub. Or by a North Korean suicide sub.

North Korea apparently wants a lot of attention right now. They just asked South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the US to send dozens of warships into Chinese shipping lanes.

We, and South Korea, are not responding as they like. And the Chinese are pissed. The son of a god just provoked South Korea's allies to send an armada, or at least an intimidating number of warships, into the waters that China uses to get oil.

"Someron ees vry ronry, so vry ronry." But who is going to absorb the countless benighted, starving wretches of North Korea when this state falls?

This attack is a sad, murderous ploy to get China to send North Korea more money and supplies. But is the horrible humanitarian disaster of North Korea one that we--including the Chinese--even want to deal with?