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South Korea would take the case of its torpedoed warship by North Korea to the United Nations, President Lee Myung-bak's office announced. The Cheonan sank in waters near the Northern Limit Line on March 26, killing 46 sailors. An international team of investigators, which included three Canadian naval experts, concluded last week that a North Korean submarine torpedoed the ship. They reportedly recovered torpedo parts at the site of the explosion that match the design in a book published by North Korea for the purpose of arms sales. North Korea has vehemently denied the allegations, calling the investigation a enormous fabrication in a commentary Sunday in the North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper President Myung-bak is poised to make a speech about how the country plans to proceed in light of the findings on Monday, a spokesperson from his office told South Korea's Yonhap News Agency. In that speech, Myung-bak is expected to announce he will take the matter before the UN. He called for the systematic and resolute countermeasures against North Korea so that it cannot repeat this reckless provocation.
