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Suspicion of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of goods by North Korean-flagged tanker, and Maldivian-flagged tanker

By Marco Robinson February 28, 2018 2 min read

At midnight on February 24, 2018, a P-3C aircraft of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Fleet Air Wing 1 P-3C : Kanoya) found that Chon Ma San, North Korean-flagged tanker, was lying alongside Xin Yuan 18, Maldivian-flagged tanker, on the high sea (around 250 km eastern offshore of Shanghai ) in the East China Sea. Judging […]

N. Korean delegation heads to Maldives for regional meeting of WHO

By Maldives Times September 2, 2017 1 min read

SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) — A North Korean delegation left for Male, the Maldives, on Saturday to attend a regional meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO), the North’s state media reported. The delegation, led by the communist state’s Public Health Minister Jang Jun-sang, traveled to the capital of the Maldives to attend the 70th […]