Stop they must...or sink them we will.
Posted on 10/19/2006 4:57:04 PM PDT by maquiladora
U.S. intelligence has detected the departure from a North Korean port of a North Korean ship suspected of carrying military equipment banned under a U.N. sanctions resolution against Pyongyang's Oct. 9 nuclear test, CBS News reported Thursday.
The United States is tracking the ship, CBS said, noting that it remains uncertain exactly what the ship is carrying and where it is headed.
Now's the time for our suicide porpoise.
[KOSH]And so it begins...[/KOSH]
Madeline Albright is the first mate on the NK ship.
Reports coming out about the Chinese high level meeting in Pyongyang yesterday with Kim Jong il
He's playing games.
Quoting here: "If the Americans concede a little bit, we will also make some concessions, whether this is in one to one talks, or within the six party talks, whatever."
I think he is up to his old tricks of trying to drive wedges. The S. Koreans and Chinese will now say "SEE! USA, don't be so harsh on KJI, he is showing flexibility." Oldest trick in the book. Watch the Chinese and South Koreans come out in the next hour or so and say these things, driving further wedges and making it US/Japan in it only and together.
I Think it's going To the ME with another load of trouble for somebody. I'm wondering if China will do anything at all,,Look off in the air,,Whistle,,Scratch their A$$,,;0)
Don't forget cases of Johnny Walker or whatver Chia Pet drinks
I'm thinking the same thing. Could get very interesting soon.
We should offer the Chinese the opportunity to JOIN us in interdicting this ship.
OMG you sunk my battleship LOL!
Man I waste lots of my childhood playing that game on rainy day in SO CAL with my older brother LOL!
Why are we announcing this? Oh, nevermind, Mr. Anonymous Source and Ms. High Ranking Official blabbed.
Better sooner than later,,,Git-R-Done...;0)
Stop they must...or sink them we will.
It would be best to Nuke it from orbit. (Just joking, I do not need another timeout!)
Nope...US Navy can get the job done just fine,IMHO..;0)
Seal Job ! Grab it before they even know it..Game Over.
Chivas
hehehehehe,,,,Me either,,(must use big words).;0)
OH YEAH I forgot that other fav booze he likes LOL!
I think he prefer Johnny Walker btw Tiger or AIT does Chia Pet like Jack Daniels
Capture their boat and hold it as a prize.
On 09 December 2002 the 3,500-ton North Korean cargo vessel, So San, was stopped and boarded about 600 miles off the coast of Yemen. This happened during maritime interception operations (MIO) in the Arabian Sea conducted by two Spanish Navy ships, the Santa Maria-class Frigate Navarra (F-85) accompanied by the replenishment ship Patino (A-14). When signaled to stop, So San attempted to evade capture, forcing Navarra to fire warning shots across its bow. Spanish Special Forces troops then conducted a hostile boarding by helicopter and small boat. The boarding team later found 15 disassembled Scud missiles concealed by bags of cement, bound for Yemen. US military experts deployed in the area were called in to further examine the cargo. US Intelligence sources had been tracking the vessel since it departed its home port of Nampo in North Korean in mid-November 2002. US officials feared the vessel was heading for Iraq or another rogue state. After urgent talks between US and Yemeni diplomats, it was allowed to deliver the weapons.
The ship was flying no flag at the time it was stopped and the missiles were concealed underneath a shipment of cement. The ship was being tracked by the United States since leaving North Korea and was apparently stopped by the Spanish at the behest of the US government. After determining a lack of legal authority to cease the missiles, the ship was allowed to continue on to its destination. The Yemeni government, which initially denied knowledge of the ship, promised that there would be no transfer of the missiles to another country or non-state actor. Also, Yemen had cultivated closer ties with the US in recent years by cooperating in the Global War On Terrorism. The incident raises the question of what US actions would be in the event of some kind of blockade aimed at preventing a North Korean merchant vessel equipped with a missile, such as the Nodong-B, from attacking the United States.
The North Korean ship that transported Scud missiles to Yemen in 2002 was also used to carry chemical weapons material to North Korea. The Sosan delivered several tons of sodium cyanide, an agent used in making nerve gas, for use by Kim Jong-Il's regime. The Sosan sparked an international incident when it was stopped by US and Spanish warships in December 2002 close to Yemen. The Sosan later went on to Germany, where it picked up the chemical cargo before returning to the west Korean seaport of Nampo in February 2003.
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