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Philip Trainer

North Korea to pay Panama fine for seamen's release - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

  • pay a fine next week
  • military weapons from Cuba onboard
  • Chong Chon Gang
  • ...28 more annotations...
  • July 10
  • Panamanian customs officers
  • crew of 35
  • 25 containers of military hardware
  • 35-strong crew at a former US naval base,
  • air defence systems
  • missiles
  • two Soviet era MiG-21 fighter
  • 200,000 sacks of sugar.
  • (North Korean) Foreign Ministry will pay to free the sailors and the ship,
  • command and control vehicles
  • million-dollar penalty on the communist state.
  • 32 of them who did not know the content of the load.
  • admitted to having given a false statement on the ship's load and agreed to pay
  • 12 years in prison
  • none of them knew the content of the shipment
  • released "immediately" after the fine is paid.
  • "I have not been informed of this, and I don't know where Nunez got this information."
  • reduced to $666,666
  • Cubans in Havana
  • exert pressure on North Korea to pay the fine
  • pay between late November and early December.
  • Havana and Pyongyang
  • weapons aboard the freighter were obsolete Cuban arms
  • refurbishment under a legitimate contract.
  • Panama
  • said the shipment violated the UN arms embargo against North Korea.
  • United Nations had determined that the weapons were an infringement on sanctions imposed over the reclusive North's nuclear weapons program.
Philip Trainer

World War II's Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together - The Daily... - 2 views

  • hasn’t been told before in English
  • three Sherman tanks from the 23rd Tank Battalion
  • 12th Armored Division
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • Capt. John C. ‘Jack’ Lee Jr.
  • Schloss Itter in the Tyrol
  • French VIPs
  • ex-prime ministers Paul Reynaud
  • Eduard Daladier
  • Generals Maxime Weygand and Paul Gamelin
  • recapture the castle and execute the prisoners
  • anti-Nazi German soldiers of the Wehrmacht
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