Report: Indian coast guard allows detained North Korean ship lo leave

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A North Korean ship headed for Pakistan has been detained off the Kerala coast by the navy and the Coast Guard after it anchored in Indian waters without mandatory clearance, a defence official said Sunday. The North Korean vessel, Hyang Ro, was detained at Vadakara in Kozhikode district.

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI/KOCHI - A probe team has found nothing "incriminating" on board a Pakistan-bound North Korean ship, which was detained off the Kerala coast for anchoring in Indian waters without mandatory clearance, a naval official said Sunday. The vessel, Hyang Ro, was detained at Vadakara in Kozhikode district Oct 2 and was inspected by a joint team of the Indian Navy, the Coast Guard, intelligence agencies and port authorities, naval spokesperson Commander Roy Francis said.

October 4th, 2009 Report: North Korean ship detained in IndiaNEW DELHI — India's coast guard has detained a North Korean ship headed for Pakistan after it dropped anchor in Indian waters without permission, a news agency reported Sunday. It was not immediately clear what cargo the ship was carrying.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The detained North Korean ship MV Mu San is likely to be booked under the Indian Maritime Act for illegally entering in to the Indian waters. According to sources, the Union Home Ministry, Defence Ministry and External Affairs Ministry are coordinating with each other to finalise the procedure in this regard.

August 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two nuclear scientists who have conducted a preliminary investigation of the seized North Koran ship MV Mu San, have said the vessel does not contain any trace of chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear materials. The Kalpakam Nuclear Power Station scientists conducted the preliminary investigations at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The seized North Korean ship MV Mu San is being brought to Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh where central security agencies and nuclear scientists will carry out an extensive search of the vessel. The MV Mu San was intercepted off the Andaman and Nicobar coast while awaiting clearance to proceed to Iraq.

August 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta has said that interrogation of the crew of a suspicious North Korea ship detained by Indian coastguards at Andaman and Nicobar Islands was still on. Talking to reporters here on the sideline of a conference Mehta said, "Till now nothing significant has come out.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta, said on Saturday that there was nothing to panic and the investigation of crewmembers of the North Korean ship detained by the Coast Guard near Andaman and Nicobar is lands is still going on. Admiral Mehta clarified that no suspicious thing has been found on the ship so far.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI/PORT BLAIR - India on Saturday said that the North Korean cargo ship, which illegally entered its territorial waters, had "no business" to be there even as its captain today claim to have done so following some mechanical problems. Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta in the national capital said that M V San "had no business" to be in Indian waters and that the maritime security agencies had fears that it could be carrying nuclear components.

July 30th, 2009 Report: SKorean fishing boat taken to NKoreaSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea seized a South Korean fishing boat early Thursday after it accidentally crossed the countries' sea border, a news report said. Yonhap news agency quoted a Defense Ministry official as saying that the incident took place at about 6:30 a.m.

July 18th, 2009 BANGALORE - A Chinese ship carrying 13,000 tonnes of iron ore is adrift in choppy waters of the Arabian sea off the Mangalore coast and the Indian Coast Guard planes are not able to locate it due to inclement weather, an official said Saturday. "Our Dorniers have not sighted the ship and search is on despite the bad weather," Assistant Commandant D.K.

June 30th, 2009 Source: North Korean ship now going the other wayWASHINGTON — A U.S. official says a North Korean ship has turned around and is headed back the way it came, after being tracked for days by American vessels on suspicion it was carrying illicit weapons.

June 28th, 2009 UN ambassador: US closely monitoring NKorean shipWASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S.

June 25th, 2009 OKHA - A Saudi merchant ship named Al-Jawaz-e-Karam was reported missing and feared sunk about 12 nautical miles off the Okha port in the deep waters of the Arabian sea in western Gujarat Thursday morning. "The upper layer disturbance over the Arabian sea had led to cyclonic conditions off the Okha coast (since Wednesday), in which two merchant ships, both bearing a Saudi flag - Al-Hussani and Al-Jawaaz-e-Karam - were caught in the mid-sea in the early hours (Thursday)," a senior coast guard official told IANS.

June 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US military is tracking a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material, in violation of a UN Security Council resolution passed last Friday. A ship named Kang Nam left a port in North Korea on Wednesday, and could be carrying missile parts or nuclear materials.