Report: Indian coast guard detains North Korean ship headed to Pakistan

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 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.

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.

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.

March 10th, 2009 SEOUL - Seven South Korean sailors were missing after their cargo ship collided with a larger freighter and sank off the coast of Japan, South Korea's Coast Guard said Tuesday. According to the coast guard, a 4,255-tonne South Korean-registered ship, Orchid Pia, sank after colliding with a Panamanian-registered automobile carrier at around 2:15 a.m.

February 12th, 2009 KANYAKUMARI - Four foreign sailors on board a South Korean freighter off the Tamil Nadu coast died of food poisoning while two were admitted to a government hospital here Friday evening, an official said. 'An SOS message was received from the vessel 16 nautical miles off the coast.

February 1st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A day after the Indian Coast Guard apprehended four Pakistani fishing boats off the Gujarat coast, the 26 crew members were Monday handed over to police for interrogation, an official said. Wing Commander Satish Menon told IANS that the Coast Guard vessel 'Tarabai' had apprehended the four Pakistani fishing boats - 'al Imran', 'al Basheer', 'Bismillah' and 'Abdullah' - Sunday evening off Jakhau coast following a tip-off about the boats being in Indian waters.

January 17th, 2009 SANA'A - At least 130 passengers managed to swim ashore after a ship with around 300 Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized off the coast of Yemen Saturday, Yemeni coast guard officials said. A coast guard official in Red Sea port of Houdieda said 130 people managed to swim ashore or were rescued by coast guard teams and local fishermen.