The New York Times has two interesting new developments.
First, that a similar North Korean ship made the same voyage last year:
An aging North Korean freighter similar to the one impounded by Panama for carrying concealed Cuban military equipment made the same voyage last year without attracting suspicion, passing through the Panama Canal and calling at the same two Cuban ports, an international maritime traffic monitor said Wednesday.
The monitor, IHS Fairplay, said that both vessels — the 390-foot Oun Chong Nyon Ho, which made the voyage last year, and the 450-foot Chong Chon Gang — normally worked much closer to North Korea, making their trans-Pacific trips to Cuba even more unusual.
“They don’t normally make these ocean passages,” Richard Hurley, a senior maritime data specialist at IHT Fairplay, said in a telephone interview from the group’s London offices. “It’s intriguing to see two fairly small ships making the same pattern.”
Second, that Cuba asked Panama to release the ship the day before it was impounded (Castro's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Rogelio Sierra Diaz flew urgently to Panama on Saturday to personally make the request) -- more proof (premeditation) that the Castro regime was very conscious of its nefarious activities and wanted to elude detection:
José Raúl Mulino, Panama’s minister of security, said on Wednesday that his government had requested help from the United States and Britain in its investigation of the impounded ship. In an interview on Panama’s TVN-2 television network, Mr. Mulino also disclosed that Cuba had asked Panama to release the ship the day before it was impounded, which surprised him at the time.
“Now I definitely understand, as does anyone who has been following the case, why the captain was so reticent in his cooperation, why the varied efforts at mutiny from the crew,” Mr. Mulino said.
First, that a similar North Korean ship made the same voyage last year:
An aging North Korean freighter similar to the one impounded by Panama for carrying concealed Cuban military equipment made the same voyage last year without attracting suspicion, passing through the Panama Canal and calling at the same two Cuban ports, an international maritime traffic monitor said Wednesday.
The monitor, IHS Fairplay, said that both vessels — the 390-foot Oun Chong Nyon Ho, which made the voyage last year, and the 450-foot Chong Chon Gang — normally worked much closer to North Korea, making their trans-Pacific trips to Cuba even more unusual.
“They don’t normally make these ocean passages,” Richard Hurley, a senior maritime data specialist at IHT Fairplay, said in a telephone interview from the group’s London offices. “It’s intriguing to see two fairly small ships making the same pattern.”
Second, that Cuba asked Panama to release the ship the day before it was impounded (Castro's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Rogelio Sierra Diaz flew urgently to Panama on Saturday to personally make the request) -- more proof (premeditation) that the Castro regime was very conscious of its nefarious activities and wanted to elude detection:
José Raúl Mulino, Panama’s minister of security, said on Wednesday that his government had requested help from the United States and Britain in its investigation of the impounded ship. In an interview on Panama’s TVN-2 television network, Mr. Mulino also disclosed that Cuba had asked Panama to release the ship the day before it was impounded, which surprised him at the time.
“Now I definitely understand, as does anyone who has been following the case, why the captain was so reticent in his cooperation, why the varied efforts at mutiny from the crew,” Mr. Mulino said.
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