South Korea held Hong Kong ship over North Korean sanctions busting
Seoul — South Korea briefly seized and inspected a Hong Kong-registered ship in November for transferring oil products to a North Korean vessel and breaching UN sanctions, a foreign ministry official said Friday. The confirmation comes after US President Donald Trump lashed out at China over supplying fuel to Kim Jong-un’s regime. The South Korean official said the Lighthouse Winmore, which was chartered by a Taiwanese company and carrying about 600 tonnes of oil products from South Korea’s Yeosu port, had transferred part of its cargo to a North Korean vessel on October 19. South Korean customs authorities briefly seized and inspected the ship when it returned to Yeosu Port on November 24, he said. The ship, chartered by Taiwanese company Billions Bunker Group, previously visited Yeosu on October 11 to load up on Japanese refined oil before heading towards its purported destination in Taiwan. Instead of going to Taiwan, however, the vessel transferred the oil to the North’s Sam Jon...
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