N Korea warns UN not to debate ship sinking

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SEOUL, June 9 (AFP): North Korea warned the UN Wednesday of 'serious' consequences for peace if it debates an alleged torpedo attack on a South Korean warship without letting the North's investigators examine the evidence.
South Korea, the United States and other countries accuse the North of sinking the ship with the loss of 46 lives and are pushing for the United Nations Security Council to censure the communist state.
The North accuses Washington and Seoul of faking evidence of its involvement as a pretext for aggression and says reprisals already announced by the South could spark war.
Pyongyang said Wednesday its UN representative had written to the council president, repeating demands that Pyongyang be allowed to send a team south of the border to examine the evidence.
"In case the unilaterally forged 'investigation result' is put on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council and open to be debated without the verification of the directly victimised party...no one would dare imagine how serious its consequences would be with regard to the peace and security on the Korean peninsula," state media quoted the letter as saying.
It urged the Security Council not to be swayed by US "lies" as it was over the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and said the world body has a duty to stay impartial.
After a weeks-long investigation a multinational team said last month there was overwhelming evidence that a North Korean submarine had fired a heavy torpedo to break the warship in two in March.
South Korea formally asked the Security Council last week to respond and said Wednesday the investigators would brief the council's 15 members on the probe at the request of council chair Mexico.
The South has rejected the North's demands to send its own investigators, with the defence minister saying it would be "like a robber or a murderer insisting he must inspect the crime scene".
The South has announced reprisals, including cutting off trade with the cash-strapped North, and is lobbying for support at the UN.