Subscribe to RSS feedNorth Korea rejects use of guards on aid vessels
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Justin Stares, Brussels
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Jul 09, 2009 05:33 PM
NORTH Korea is refusing requests from European Union anti-piracy forces to place armed guards on World Food Program ships bound for Somalia.
Ships flagged in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and chartered to carry food aid to starving Somalis are not being protected by armed guards from the EU Navfor force as requests are always refused.
“The North Koreans...
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