In what the New York Times calls
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In what the New York Times calls “a move certain to escalate tensions already on the rise” between the US and North Korea, the US has seized a North Korean cargo ship. The Justice Department says Wise Honest, the second-largest shipping vessel in Pyongyang’s fleet, was violating US law and international sanctions by exporting North Korean coal; both the US and the United Nations have imposed sanctions on coal as part of their attempts to get the country to end its nuclear weapons program. Officials say the ship was also used to smuggle heavy machinery into North Korea, USA Today reports.
