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Security & Strategic Review - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PANAMA: Mystery of North Korean ship in Panama Canal
On 15 July Panamanian officials at Manzanillo port, next to the northern end of the Canal, boarded the Chong Chon Gang, a North Korean ship with a declared cargo of unrefined sugar from Cuba and ostensibly headed for North Korea. The boarding party was officially conducting a search for drugs. Initially resisted by the crew, they did not find any. Instead they found in the first two containers they opened, hidden under bags of sugar, a sizable batch of arms, including parts of anti-aircraft rocket systems and engines of MiG-2 bis interceptor fighters. The captain and 35 crew members were placed under arrest on suspicion of posing a threat to Panamanian security, and also of attempting to breach the United Nations Security Council’s 2006 embargo on arms imports to and exports from North Korea (expanded in 2009).
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