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Philippines impounds North Korean ship
MANILA, Philippines (3rd UPDATE) -- Enforcing the United Nations sanctions on North Korea, the Philippines has impounded a North Korean freighter docked at a former US naval base in Zambales, MalacaĂąang announced on Saturday, March 5."Our obligation is essentially to impound the vessel and not allow it to leave port," Undersecretary Manuel Quezon III, head of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office, said in an interview on state-run radio dzRB. Quezon added that the crew of cargo ship Jin Teng, docked in Subic port in Zambales, "must eventually be deported." Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-03-06 |
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