(April 24) -- South Korea has retrieved the bow of a sunken warship that exploded mysteriously last month in disputed waters near North Korea, leaving 46 sailors dead or missing and hiking already-high tension between the two countries.
Investigators say the blast was from an external source, not mechanical failure on the boat itself. South Korea hasn't outright accused the North of torpedoing its ship, but unnamed intelligence officials have suggested it in media reports. The North has denied it.
A unnamed South Korean official told the country's Yonhap news agency today that evidence of damage on the ship's retrieved bow supports the theory of an external blast.
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