India captures North Korean ship

[Righteous_Fire]

but egos come in between us... At times its very difficult to control our egos........

You just read my mind

 

[Brahm0s]

it's funny that india is actively imposing sanction against N.K while clinton is having a coffee with kim jong-il ,a nice brown-nose from india

Friend do u meant clinton? The one who been caught with monica? Do we all have to comment on him? His most time spends in india. May be his 2nd monica might be in india. By the way india done gr8 by catching the ship. Who know it have been stuffed with nuclear materials, missiles or even kasab type terrorists who this time might be carring missiles rather than guns. India should guard our sea and keep watching china, north korea, myanmar and pakistan. Its a gr8 news that india caught this ship. It doesnt matter what it was carrying. After checking and investigation ship will be let off. Cheers

 

[jeet]

Friend do u meant clinton? The one who been caught with monica? Do we all have to comment on him? His most time spends in india. May be his 2nd monica might be in india. By the way india done gr8 by catching the ship. Who know it have been stuffed with nuclear materials, missiles or even kasab type terrorists who this time might be carring missiles rather than guns. India should guard our sea and keep watching china, north korea, myanmar and pakistan. Its a gr8 news that india caught this ship. It doesnt matter what it was carrying. After checking and investigation ship will be let off. Cheers

India is not a country who will do policing of North Korea.. but the mistake done by NK was that they came too close to our Andaman Islands.. thats why we stopped them,, Otherwise i am sure our coast guard wouldnt have disturbed them....

 

[toxic_pus]

So let me get this right. A foreign ship, anchored at a place it is not supposed to, which doesn't stick to international protocol, doesn't have proper papers, can't be challenged by Indian Coast Guard. If it does, then India is definitely upto some mischief.

That reminds me of a Frank Zappa quote:

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."

Ho Hum

 

[Gabbar]

What a ridiculous article, it left no opportunity to somehow keep mentioning Pakistan where there was no connection

You been here long time AA and you should know that Pakistan and NK link was proven years back.

 

[Gabbar]

NKorean ship had no business to be in Indian waters: Navy chief​

PORT BLAIR/NEW DELHI: India on Saturday said the North Korean cargo ship, which illegally entered its territorial waters, had "no business" to be
there even as its captain claimed it had done so due to mechanical problems. ( Watch )

Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said in Delhi 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.
"The fact is that the ship had no business to be there," he said, adding "that (it was carrying nuclear components) was our apprehension also. At the moment, it is carrying genuine merchandise."

Coast Guard Andaman and Nicobar Region Commander K R Nautiyal said, "We are in the process of investigation. Expert agencies, including Korean interpreters, are likely to come to facilitate better communication, because they (crew members) are not very good in English."

However, one information that the Coast Guard could extract from M V San's captain was that the ship had entered the Indian waters, about 65 nautical miles south of Port Blair due to a mechanical fault, which could not be corroborated.

"There are a few inconsistencies, which have been found about the ship, like some papers are not in order," he said.

Since the cargo vessel was brought to Port Blair around 0500 Hours on Friday, the investigating agencies have learnt and verified that the ship, which set sail from a port in Thailand on July 27, was carrying 16,000 tonnes of sugar to an Iraqi port.

The Coast Guard had noticed M V San anchored off Little Andaman on Wednesday and its joint effort with the Navy to get a response to radio signals had failed.

Consequently, the Coast Guard flew one of its aircraft to check out the cargo vessel, but yet again the ship did not respond to its radio communication.

The Coast Guard sailed its patrol vessel CGS Kanagalatha Barua and the Navy INS Brinkat to visit the cargo vessel and carry out investigation.

On seeing the military ships, M V San tried to flee and the Coast Guard fired a warning shot to force it to comply to their order to sail to Port Blair.

"Our ships reached the cargo vessel around 2100 Hours on Thursday and M V San started proceeding in a different direction. At that stage, we had to warn the ship that we need to carry out investigations for safety sake," Nautiyal said.

"So we fired a round in the air just to make the vessel obey," he added.

Nautiyal also said there were other issues that the investigating agencies had to verify from the cargo vessel's agents and other agencies involved in supporting the vessel in various countries.

"The ship was supposed to have gone to Iraq, but changed its destination, which happens while at sea. They could be asked (by their agents) to go to different location," he added

 

[haawk]

a lot of pakistani posters are jumping here for no reason of theirs!!!!!!

p.s.:what if some terrorist like kasab was travelling on that ship

 

[jeet]

a lot of pakistani posters are jumping here for no reason of theirs!!!!!!

p.s.:what if some terrorist like kasab was travelling on that ship

I think they came to see INCREDIBLE INDIA

 

[afriend]

India is playing a foolish game...

I dont understand such foolish comments. India detained a ship, which was acting suspecious in all terms. And what is wrong with that. Yes TOI was laying own the premises of past actions of NK ships with the out of the line actions of the ship.

I appreciate the step taken by our coast guard in being proactive in their effort to guard our shores.

 

[Brahm0s]

India is not a country who will do policing of North Korea.. but the mistake done by NK was that they came too close to our Andaman Islands.. thats why we stopped them,, Otherwise i am sure our coast guard wouldnt have disturbed them....

Friend not policing but keeping an eye. They using our sea to supply arms. When they came in our sea than india tried to stop them but they quickly tryied to escape. Than our navy fired in air and suddenly NK ship panic and stoped. India navy still having a doubt why NK ship tryied to escape when it was carrying sugar.

 

[Lethalforce]

US satellites must have been tracking this ship since it left port and probably told India to capture the ship.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

The pirates fired onthe Indian Ship, that was reason enough .

Grant the IN the same level of maturity & aggression as any reader would like to give to his own Navy.

No one is emulating USA or anyone else. Each nation has to act according to its own discretion & stand responsible for what it does.

Knock! Knock! Anybody home?! That was a commercial THAILAND vessel, no pirates whatsoever! Bunch of retards on IN drunk in their delusions of grandeur start blowing up the ship without confirming anything. I know Thais are peeved and rightfully so. Oh, and there were other nationalities (which is common protocol) on the ship, such as Pinoys. Imagine if this was a South Korean or Japanese owned ship.....

 

[xebex]

Knock! Knock! Anybody home?! That was a commercial THAILAND vessel, no pirates whatsoever! Bunch of retards on IN drunk in their delusions of grandeur start blowing up the ship without confirming anything. I know Thais are peeved and rightfully so. Oh, and there were other nationalities (which is common protocol) on the ship, such as Pinoys. Imagine if this was a South Korean or Japanese owned ship.....

the same will happen as long as it is on Indian territorial waters without permission. remember Russian aircraft flew into India and got detained recently?, now russia is much closer to new delhi than anybody else. so ur arguement is baseless!!!

 

[third eye]

Knock! Knock! Anybody home?! That was a commercial THAILAND vessel, no pirates whatsoever! Bunch of retards on IN drunk in their delusions of grandeur start blowing up the ship without confirming anything. I know Thais are peeved and rightfully so. Oh, and there were other nationalities (which is common protocol) on the ship, such as Pinoys. Imagine if this was a South Korean or Japanese owned ship.....

In addition to what Xebex has mentioned , I would like to. add that it would make no diff whatsoever whose flag the ship / boat flew. If it fired on the IN retaliation was mandatory.. and there is only one way hostile fire is retaliated to.

Also, kindly be discreet in your choice of words. The IN is as professional as any other Navy.

Lastly, we are discussing theKorean ship here.

 

[EjazR]

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-41652020090810?sp=true
By Sanjib Kumar Roy

PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities were inspecting a North Korean ship detained in the Bay of Bengal for nuclear material or fuel, officials said on Monday, the latest sign of the international noose tightening around the North.

A preliminary investigation by a team of nuclear scientists failed to detect any radioactive presence on board the ship carrying a huge sugar consignment, Ashok Chand, a senior police officer in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, told Reuters.

"There will be more checking today and we will open the hatch to check the entire consignment for any radioactive material," Chand said.

The MV Mu San dropped anchor off Hut Bay island in the Andaman islands on Wednesday without permission and was detained by the coastguard after a more than six-hour chase.

U.N. member states are authorised to inspect North Korean sea, air and land cargo, and seize and destroy any goods transported in violation of a Security Council resolution in June following the North's nuclear tests.

"India is strictly following the rules and has the right to ask ships to be inspected to ensure that they are in compliance with the U.N. resolution," said Uday Bhaskar, Director of the National Maritime Foundation, a New Delhi-based think tank.

North Korean sales of missiles and other weapons materials to tense or unstable parts of the world have long been a major concern of the United States and its allies.

Indian officials said they were trying to find whether the MV Mu San was anywhere near Myanmar, which is suspected to be seeking help from North Korea to build a nuclear reactor.

A former Indian diplomat said New Delhi was wary of a possible North Korea-Myanmar nuclear cooperation and had therefore stepped up security near the Andaman islands, which is close to Myanmar.

"With increasing reports of North Korea helping Myanmar build a nuclear reactor, any vessel floating in Indian waters without a possible reason will be checked and India is rightly concerned," said Naresh Chandra, a former envoy to Washington.

A full interrogation of the 39-member crew can only begin after the arrival of a Korean interpreter later on Monday, officials said.

North Korea, which has walked out of six-party talks aimed at reining in its nuclear weapons programme, fired a barrage of short-range missiles in launch tests in May and exploded a nuclear device on May 25, resulting in tougher U.N. sanctions that it has ignored.

Experts say North Korea are feeling the blows from U.N. sanctions and could face more international pressure.

"North Korea is realising that the eyes of the world are on them and they are feeling the blows from U.N. sanctions," said Lee Sang-hyun, director of the security studies programme at the Sejong Institute think tank, located near Seoul.

"They will have to be careful because this incident shows that they are feeling more pressure from countries around the world," Sang-hyun added.

(Additional reporting by Christine Kim in Seoul and Bappa Majumdar in New Delhi)