Japan police search N.Korean ship for drugs: Kyodo
Posted on: Friday, 12 May 2006, 00:01 CDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Police searched a North Korean freighter at a port in western Japan on Friday in connection with the arrest of at least two men on suspicion of smuggling amphetamines, Kyodo news agency said.
Japan has been locked in a bitter dispute with North Korea over its abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago to help train spies, and the row has led to calls in Japan for sanctions against North Korea.
The North Korean cargo ship searched by police had entered the port in Tottori prefecture on Friday, Kyodo said.
The search followed the arrest on Friday of a South Korean national, Woo Si-yun, 59, on suspicion of smuggling illegal stimulants into Japan in October 2002, Kyodo said.
Woo is believed to be the owner of a mobile phone recovered from a North Korean spy ship that sank in the East China Sea in 2001 after an exchange of fire with Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels, Kyodo said.
A Japanese man was also arrested in connection with the case on Friday, and he and Woo are suspected of smuggling several hundred kilograms of amphetamines in 2002, Kyodo said.
Both men have denied the allegations, it said.
A police spokesman could not confirm the report.
Source: REUTERS
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