North Korea:  Taiwan Searches North Korean Ship

Taiwanese officials today boarded a North Korean ship after receiving U.S. intelligence that it might contain chemicals that could be used to build ballistic missiles, according to the Central News Agency (see GSN, July 25).

Customs officials searched the North Korean freighter Be Gaehung, which arrived yesterday in Kaohsiung Harbor after leaving Bangkok.  U.S. intelligence suspected that the ship was transporting one metric ton of aluminum hydroxide compound, also known as hydrafil, to North Korea.  Hydrafil can be used for both civilian purposes and in making the outer shell of a ballistic missile (Central News Agency/BBC Monitoring, Aug. 8).

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