North Korea sanctions: Philippines to seize cargo ship
Source: BBC
The Philippines says it has seized a North Korean ship in line with tightened UN sanctions targeting the country's nuclear programme.
Deputy presidential spokesman Manolo Quezon said the Philippines "has to do its part to enforce the sanctions".
The Jin Teng is one of 31 ships operated by North Korean firm Ocean Maritime Management, which is subject to an asset freeze and sanctions.
It is currently docked in Subic Bay and is unloading palm kernels.
New UN sanctions were imposed after North Korea's recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35735263
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)They hit the ocean because their palm kernels were hijacked.
Just trying to understand.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it is a target that N. Korea can actually hit
ConsiderThis_2016
(274 posts)I worry very, very much about an isolated country. That's what makes me nervous. Russia lives in the world. China lives in the world. North Korea is a very, very strange country because it is so isolated, and I do feel that a nation with nuclear weapons
they have got to be dealt with, he said, adding that leaning on China would do the trick.--Bernie Sanders
https://www.rt.com/usa/331363-hillary-bernie-debate-foreign-policy/
For Clinton, it was apparently Russia that deserved the greatest threat designation, judging by the time she spent talking about it. She lamented Russias support of Syrian President Bashar Assads government, which the US wants to topple, and pressure from the Kremlin on US allies in Europe.