[rdl6989]

KADENA, Japan – On Jan. 7, the U.S. Navy sent a P-8A aircraft attached to the ‘Fighting Tigers’ of Patrol Squadron EIGHT (VP-8) to assist in an international search and rescue (SAR) effort in the East China Sea following a collision between two commercial vessels.

http://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/1409720/us-navy-aircraft-joins-search-and-rescue-efforts-for-missing-mariners-in-east-c/

[KC_Lion]

He made them an offer they can't refuse.

Otherwise there are going to be more of these little "accidents".

[BenLurkin]

Never made it Pyong Yang?

[DoughtyOne]

Maybe it ran into fleeing leadership.

[artichokegrower]

Ship Collision; Iranian Tanker Burns; 32 Missing

A tanker carrying Iranian oil and run by the country’s top oil shipping firm was ablaze and spewing cargo into the East China Sea on Sunday after colliding with a Chinese freight ship, leaving the tanker’s 32 crew members missing, the Chinese government said.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/collision-iranian-missing432697

An Iranian tanker going to South Korea insured by a Norwegian company. The plot thickens.

[gspurlock]

OK, first order of business: How do we spin this to blame white men?

[William Tell]

Maybe the Chinese are taking the sanctions on North Korea more seriously than we might have hoped.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

For a ship built in 2008, it’s looking rather shabby. But not for long I would guess.

[Rembrandt]

I believe it’s called...ah, what is that word......ah, JUSTICE!