South Korea has reason to blame North Korea for torpedoing their ship. It is said that Kim Jung Ill knew all about the ship being torpedoed which makes the U.S. and South Korea think that North Korea think they did it. The hatred between South Korea and North Korea has been going on since the 1950's. That is when the Korean war started, and that split the Koreas. Since then there have been several wars, but it has been calm the past few years until now. The U.S. should side with South Korea because we have better relations with them and a better history. If you blame a country for something, but you don’t know who did it for sure, that is just taking a risk for further hatred from that country in the future. Then you have worse relations with that country, therefore other countries have to step in and help out if there are issues at the border or on the water, like in this situation.