Suspicious N. Korean freighter yet to reach home: official (Kangnam going home)

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean freighter suspected of carrying weapons banned under a U.N. resolution has yet to enter North Korean waters, a South Korean official said Monday.

"It has not yet entered North Korea. (The journey) will likely end within the day," South Korean defense ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said in a briefing.

My guess is that they had nasty things aboard the Kang Nam 1, and Pyongyang figured it was a fait d’accompli that they were going to get searched some way by us or a friendly nation if they made port (and otherwise might have been stopped in trying to anchor at Yangon), and that they also did not have the fire power (especially far away off the Vietnam coast or in the Straits of Malacca) to face down the US Navy. In that sense, this might have been a good thing. Still, I think we should have had a black team pose as pirates, seize the ship in the Malaccan Straits, hold the crew captive, tie them up/blindfold, perform a full search of the ship’s cargo content and verify and document, and then, “miraculously” give the ship back up to the Norkies, (as threatened with bogus action by one of our US Navy destroyers in a scam to “come to the assitance” of the DPRK crew), then knowing full well what was aboard we could act accordingly under UN law. There are enough risk taking types out there who could be contracted for such a job; I think in the old days the US would be ballsy and try something like this; nowadays under this fool Obama, he wants to chat out everything with our enemies on an equal plane, one of the most foolish, naive approaches to global realities I have ever seen in my life.

I believe the NK were so frightened of our (empty) threats they turned around and ran home.

What a crock!

We really have NO idea at all about this NK vessel.

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