S Korea president ‘sorry’ for tragedy

April 29th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has apologized for her government’s failure to prevent a ferry disaster that left hundreds of people dead or missing.

Park voiced on Tuesday in a statement her profound regret at the systemic and regulatory failings that contributed to the capsizing of the boat.

“I don’t know how to apologize for the failure to prevent this accident, and for the insufficient first response,” said Park.

“I feel so regretful for having been unable to correct such long-running evils and letting an accident like this take place.”

The president’s apology came two days after her Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won resigned amid harsh criticism of the government’s weak performance in the aftermath of the disaster.

The 6,825-ton ferry was reportedly carrying an estimated 3,608 tons of cargo — more than three times what an inspector said it could safely carry.

The vessel sank en route to the resort Island of Jeju on April 15. Of the 476 people on board the ferry, only 175 were rescued. The confirmed death toll stands at 193, with 109 people still missing.

Relatives of the passengers have blasted Park’s government, saying delays in launching the rescue raised the death toll.

Critics say valuable time was wasted during the first emergency call from a passenger to the Coast Guard office, as the eighteen-year old boy was asked to provide longitude and latitude information.

The ship’s captain, Lee Joon-seok, initially told passengers to stay in their rooms and took half an hour to issue an evacuation order, by which time the ship was tilting too severely for many people to get out.

Following the disaster, authorities arrested Lee and other crewmembers on negligence charges. The ship’s captain has also been charged with undertaking an “excessive change of course without slowing down.”

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