Nelson Report publisher mentions about Cheonan

There are some individuals who doubt about the multinational investigation results on the Cheonan, raising the possibility that it was likely sunk as a result of a friendly fire by the U.S. Navy. But these people are very much misguided in their belief, said a publisher of an influential U.S. political insider’s report.

“The international investigation team, including those from the U.S., was composed of highly trained experts. And there were also participants from the United Kingdom and Australia and Sweden. And it doesn’t make sense if one doesn’t believe their findings,” said Chris Nelson, the publisher of the Nelson Report, a “must” among Washington political analysts and journalists.

Nelson made the remark in a talk he gave at the Korea Club on Wednesday night, the local Chosun Ilbo reported from Washington, D.C.

Nelson compared the skeptics to those who claimed the September 11 terrorist attacks were engineered by Donald Rumsfeld, a former U.S. defense minister.

He also made it clear that there was no U.S. military asset at the site of the Cheonan sinking at the time of the incident, flatly dismissing the possibility of the involvement of a U.S. torpedo.

The U.S. checks its torpedo inventory regularly and there was no missing torpedo from the U.S. side, Nelson said.