(14.06.2010) The government nominated Army Chief of Staff Han Min Koo to replace Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Lee Sang Eui, according to a spokesman at the Defense Ministry who declined to be identified, citing official policy. (..)

Lee, who had offered to resign yesterday over the incident, rejected some of the findings of a Board of Audit and Inspection that last week said 25 generals and civilian officials should be punished over the March 26 attack, in which 46 sailors died.