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“Tracking a North Korean ship and stopping it is a great difference”

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Published 18 June, 2009, 23:26

Donald Kirk, a correspondent from the Christian Science Monitor, told RT he suspects that the US Navy may well track a North Korean ship and a lot of other ships, but it is not quite ready to stop them.

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