[Ruprecht]

Stop and fight, drug ship crew ordered
By KEITH MOOR
06mar06

A NORTH Korean official ordered the crew on the Pong Su heroin ship to stop and fight to avoid capture in Australia.

Radio messages seized by Australian Federal Police reveal the battle order was made as the Pong Su was being chased along the Victorian coast.

The ship sent a message to North Korea saying: "As a soldier for the greatest general, we are determined to fight to the last man."

It had just dropped 150kg of heroin worth $165 million at Boggaley Creek on a rubber dinghy near Lorne - resulting in Victoria's biggest heroin bust.

The Pong Su refused to obey AFP orders to stop and allow police to board it, saying it would have to seek advice from the North Korean Government.

U.S. experts on North Korea later gave evidence they had no doubt the North Korean Government of communist dictator Kim Jong-il was involved in the Pong Su drug importation. Faced with the might of Australian warship HMAS Stuart, the Pong Su eventually surrendered after a four-day chase finished north of Sydney in April, 2003. The messages were revealed yesterday after a Supreme Court jury of six men and six women deliberated for 10 days before finding captain Man Sun Song, 65, political secretary Dong Song Choi, 61, chief mate Man Jin Ri, 51, and chief engineer Ju Chon Ri, 51, not guilty of being involved in the heroin shipment.

The four walked free after nearly three years in custody and were expected to return to North Korea within days.

Guilty pleas by four other men over the heroin shipment were suppressed until yesterday.

Two have already been sentenced to lengthy jail terms - 23 years and 22 years.

The end of the seven-month Pong Su trial has enabled The Advertiser to reveal the North Korean battle order.

AFP agent Damien Appleby, who was in charge of the investigation, said radio messages showed some on board were determined not to be captured.

"A lot of the stuff on the vessel talked about Australia as the enemy," Agent Appleby said.

The lifting of suppression orders yesterday has also enabled the reporting of the guilty plea of Ta Song Wong, 40, who used a small rubber dinghy to take 150kg of heroin off the Pong Su near Lorne late on April 15 or early April 16, 2003.

A man who left the Pong Su in the dinghy with Wong drowned when it capsized.

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...55E911,00.html

So here we have a real threat and what happens? Bugger all.
Now that we are safe from the dreaded Iraqis what about these North Koreans?

[KingSnake]

Invade them. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!

[datadog]

Originally Posted by Ruprecht

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...55E911,00.html

So here we have a real threat and what happens? Bugger all.
Now that we are safe from the dreaded Iraqis what about these North Koreans?

Damn dude, if every country that exported drugs was invaded then Latin America would be a big glowing fire to the South.

North Korea is nutty as hell though, got to agree there.

[Ruprecht]

Yeah well how come we have a war on drugs, a war on terror and a policy of regime change, yet the troops are in Iraq and N Korea is sittin' pretty.
How come diplomatic pressure is ok for North Korea depite their nuclear ambitions and government ships full of H manned by Korean officials under orders to fight to the death?
How did Iraq get so far up the queue?

[mysilentsigh]

Originally Posted by Ruprecht

Yeah well how come we have a war on drugs, a war on terror and a policy of regime change, yet the troops are in Iraq and N Korea is sittin' pretty.
How come diplomatic pressure is ok for North Korea depite their nuclear ambitions and government ships full of H manned by Korean officials under orders to fight to the death?
How did Iraq get so far up the queue?

how much oil is there in north korea?

[Mr.Totality]

Exactly, we need to work on the oil first. Once that is taken care of, then maybe N.korea

[Ruprecht]

Originally Posted by Mr.Totality

Exactly, we need to work on the oil first. Once that is taken care of, then maybe N.korea

You've had nearly 3 years now! How long can it possibly take to rape and pillage Iraq?

Besides I'm sure N. Korea has SOMETHING you can pawn off for a few bob. Maybe sell the population into slavery to the Chinese? Populate it with live-in sweatshops?

[Mr.Totality]

Originally Posted by Ruprecht

You've had nearly 3 years now! How long can it possibly take to rape and pillage Iraq?

Besides I'm sure N. Korea has SOMETHING you can pawn off for a few bob. Maybe sell the population into slavery to the Chinese? Populate it with live-in sweatshops?

Come on we need more than 3 years, we still have to worry about Iran and the rest of their pesky buddies. We will make it to Asisa shortly. Welcome to Planet America

[piedra]

What a shame there isn't any oil to steal in N. Korea.

[Jave]

Those pesky North Koreans got also worlds fourth-largest military.