SEOUL, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- North Korea has officially denied to the United Nations sinking a South Korean warship in March, a Seoul official said Monday.
An international team of investigators concluded in May a North Korean submarine fired an aluminum torpedo to sink the corvette Cheonan near the maritime border, killing 46 South Korean sailors.
"North Korea wrote a letter in English revealing the results of the National Defense Commission's investigation and circulated it among U.N. member states on Friday," the official told Yonhap. The commission is the North's highest seat of power.
The North Korean Central News Agency also reported Monday its investigation results were distributed to the Security Council.
Pyongyang offered recently to hand over samples of its torpedoes, which it said were made of steel alloy, not aluminum. The North has been demanding the South let investigators from the North study the site, which the South has refused.
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