ROK Navy Saves N. Korean Freighter from Pirate Attack
The spirit of 2000 isn’t quite dead yet:
A South Korean naval unit rescued a North Korean freighter from being hijacked by suspected pirates in Somali waters on Monday, a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) official said.
The incident, which took place at 5:40 a.m. (Somali time) 37 km south of the Yemeni port city of Aden, came amid chilled relations between the Koreas that have been technically at war for over five decades. [Yonhap]
The freighter arrived safely in Bandas Abbas with its cargo of reprocessed plutonium and missile engines the following day. No word on whether the notorious Fatbeard was among the pirates.
Sink them both…get rid of a few Somali pirates and a NK ship full of WMD.