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'N Korea sank Cheonan warship'
Tensions between North and South Korea have escalated ahead of a report by a multinational team into the causes of the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan warship.
Pyongyang has denied responsibility for the tragedy. But Sue Lloyd-Roberts has been speaking to a military defector who claims multiple sources in North Korea have told him otherwise.
I met Lieutenant Im Chun-yong in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, where he defected from the North a decade ago.
Lieutenant Im is in no doubt that the sinking of the South Korean Cheonan warship in March was the result of an attack by the armed forces in which he once served.
Forty-six sailors were killed or lost in the blast in disputed waters off North Korea.
He heads an organisation in South Korea which represents military defectors to the South, and claims to be in secret contact with former army colleagues in the North.
"I made calls to the North about this incident and actually contacted 11 people - military people, you know, are allowed mobile phones," he told me.
"Two of them said they were not sure and the other nine said it was done by the North."
Motives
It is impossible to verify his claims, but Lieutenant Im believes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is trying to send a message to both his neighbours in the South and the wider international community.
He also believes the North's recent belligerence is due to its desperate need for aid.
Until two years ago, the South Korean government pursued a so-called "Sunshine Policy", sending thousands of tonnes of food to the North and encouraging joint business enterprises to bring the two countries closer together.
"For about 10 years, whatever the North demanded, the South responded to it," says Lieutenant Im.
"They received more aid from the South than from China. But now the South don't give a single grain of fertiliser let alone food, because of the nuclear issues."
With North Korea exacerbating tensions by testing nuclear weapons, the Sunshine Policy was brought to an end when a new, more conservative government was elected in the South in 2008.
As the aid dried up, North Korea refused to attend peace talks and has been under pressure to return ever since.
Lieutenant Im believes this has provided a second motive for the attack.
"The USA keeps asking the North to come to the six-nation peace talks. So it [the sinking of the Cheonan] was to show to America that the North is powerful and that they would not be bullied. I think this is what they ultimately wanted to express."
On a war footing
South Koreans have watched the crisis unfold on television, but it is unlikely that there are many in the North - outside the military - who have even heard of the Cheonan.