By DPA,
Seoul : South Korea aims to take the issue of the suspected sinking of a naval vessel by North Korea to the UN Security Council, a presidential spokesman said Sunday.
The spokesman said President Lee Myung Bak was to announce this and other measures against North Korea in a speech Monday.
In recent days Lee has accused North Korea of staging a “military provocation” in the sinking of the 1,200-tonne corvette Cheonan in the Yellow Sea March 26, killing 46 South Korean sailors.
The spokesman said that Lee, in his speech, would call on North Korea to acknowledge its responsibility and that he might address Pyonyang strongman Kim Jong Il by name in his speech.
Last week, an international group of experts said that the Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo. The experts, examining fragments of a torpedo recovered from the site of the sunken wreck, said there was “overwhelming” evidence that the torpedo was fired from a North Korean sub.
North Korea denied its involvement and at the same time it has toughened its language towards the south, threatening that if the Seoul undertook any retaliation it would respond with tough measures, including war.