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Kim Jong-Il's Fighting Sailors

Kim Jong-Il's Fighting Sailors

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Jun 22, 2009
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Anyone who thinks the North Koreans will sit back passively and allow their ships at sea to be stopped and searched for nuclear weapons or missile components should reflect on a little-known sea battle that took place off the southern coast of Kyushu.

The December 22, 2001, running firefight pitted the Japanese Coast Guard and the North Korean "spy ship"…

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