North Korea rejects use of guards on aid vessels

EU anti-piracy forces stymied on protection of humanitarian supplies

Justin Stares - Monday 6 July 2009

NORTH Korea is refusing requests from European Union anti-piracy forces to place armed guards on World Food Programme ships bound for Somalia, writes Justin Stares in Brussels

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Ships flagged in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and chartered to carry food aid to starving Somalis are not being protected by armed guards from the EU N...

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