Of the North it(he,she) was preparing a suicide attack with submarines to a South Korean nose as reprisal for a previous defeat in a maritime skirmish, was saying a newspaper today Thursday.

There was an increasing speculation of which North Korea was behind the explosion that divided in two and sank(destroyed) to the nose of 1.200 tons Cheonan, killing to at least 38 persons and leaving eight missing persons.

Seoul has not blamed directly Pyongyang for the explosion, and the North has denied his(her,your) implication, but the suspicions remain in view of his(her,your) record of provocaciónes and assaults against the South.

The Thursday, the periodic Chosun Ilbo gave the news of which the Command of Intelligence of the Defense of Korea had been alert to the sea-coast weeks before the nose was sinking of that North Korea