CFR Panel: What's Behind the Cheonan Sinking?

CFR's Scott Snyder and Charles Pritchard, President of the Korea Economic Institute discussed the sinking of the South Korean corvette, Cheonan, which South Korea charges was caused by a North Korean torpedo. While response to conflict on the Korean Peninsula and internal succession concerns have been posited as reasons for the attack, Snyder said, "One of the main reasons for this was that the North Koreans felt, realized, that South Korea was kind of moving forward without the North in its own diplomacy, and it was essentially a signal to the South: Don't leave us behind."

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