North Korea seizes Russian yacht with crew in neutral waters

RT ^ | May 14, 2016

[Krosan]

Or maybe French Champaigne. :) Kim has a taste for it, but it is prohibited to sell luxury goods to norks.

[elpadre]

Hey NK!!! - not a good idea!

[Nifster]

Oh that won’t end well

[The Antiyuppie]

“Watch this area light up like the sun if the Norks don’t return the Russkie yacht. “

Briefly.

[aces]

on way to iran

[anton]

NK is trying to bait someone in to war. The US didn’t take the bait, the SK didn’t take it. Why would he think the Russians would. NK has absolutely nothing to take, no land worth anything and a very difficult population to have to manage.

No leader in their right mind would engage with them.

[Joe 6-pack]

Apparently fat boy didn’t watch the youtube video of the Somali pirates who took a Russian vessel.

[NonValueAdded]

Whoops, wrong leader.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Lil’ Kim probably let it be known he wants a yacht.

[PGR88]

Local North Korean petty officials or gangsters (the same in most communist regimes) out looking to supplement their income.

[Pride in the USA]

Unlike our president, I don’t think Putin will play nice with North Korea over this.

[TigerLikesRooster]

That is one good possibility. They might have been unable to fill this month's quota of catch, so they have to find a way to make up for it.

Drug running or other illegal criminal transactions are also done in the middle of this part of sea. Japanese crime syndicates used to(maybe still do) meet up N. Koreans there to get Meth made in N. Korea. Other kind of smuggling deals can also happen there. Russian yacht could be at the wrong place at the wrong time to witness such transactions. Or Russians may be also in it, for example, smuggling drugs into Busan, and they have some falling-out with their N. Korean partners.

[SandRat]

Another SPY ship like the USS Pueblo, they thought It was another foreign spy, with nothing but spies on it

[TigerLikesRooster]

With N. Korea, there are multiple possibilities: suspicion of espionage, plain-old piracy/hijacking/extortion, and drug-deal gone bad between Russian mob and N. Koreans.

[GOPJ]

North Korea’s the worst country in the world... with the worst leaders in modern history.

This is just one more example among millions...

[Krosan]

North Korea is what Russia gave to the world. They had their way above the 38th(?) parallel and this is the result.

Same as West-Germany and East Germany. Clear to see what system is superior.

[fella]

North Korea's News Twitter account a laugh riot.

[AdmSmith]

The newspaper «Взгляд» http://www.vz.ru/society/2016/5/14/810499.html writes about 3 cases in 2055, 2008 and 2009 and the vessels and the crew were released after a few days. I guess that it takes a few days until the decision makers in NK understands what to do.

[AdmSmith]

http://www.vz.ru/society/2016/5/14/810499.html

[SgtHooper]

AH! The Norks latest and soon-to-be submarine.