The North Korean handysize bulk carrier Wise Honest has been sold in a sealed bid auction. The proceeds of the auction will go to compensate the family of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died in 2017 shortly after being released in a vegetative state by North Korea after being tortured for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster, as well as the family of the Rev. Dong Shik Kim, who was kidnapped, tortured and executed by North Korean agents in 2000.
The 580-foot, 17,601-ton single-hull bulk carrier was seized in April 2018 by Indonesian authorities for violating international sanctions. The ship was taken over by the US in May of 2019 and was towed to American Samoa. In July, it was sold under the orders of federal judges in New York and Washington.
How much the families will receive is unclear. In a statement, the US Marshals said that they “do not disclose winning bid amounts or the identity of buyers in our sealed bid auctions.”
The Samoa News reports that the 30-year-old bulker was sold for scrap. The Navy Times estimates that the scrap value of the ship might be at most $1.7 million before the cost of towing and other expenses.
And the crew?
What happened to them?
@Phil: https://www.nknews.org/2019/05/indonesia-has-begun-repatriating-crew-of-detained-north-korean-vessel-report/
Jeremiah Blatz, THATS STRANGE!
My NHK NEWS frim tody said the crew were transported to anorher N.K. ship in the area.
N.K. demanded compensatiin frim Japan for sinking the ship.
Japan is a long way from Indonesia!
NHK WORLD
Daily News
6. Japan rejects
compensation for
N.Korean crew
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Yoshihide Suga has
rejected North Korea’s
demand for financial
compensation following a
collision between ships
from the two countries in
the Sea of Japan.
A Japanese Fisheries
Agency patrol vessel and
a North Korean fishing
boat collided in Japan’s
exclusive economic zone
off Ishikawa Prefecture
on October 7. The North
Korean boat sank but its
crew was rescued by the
agency’s vessel. The crew
members were handed
over to another North
Korean ship.
North Korea said on
Saturday that the lives of
the crew members were
threatened. It demanded
Japan pay damages and
take measures to prevent
a recurrence.
Suga told reporters on
Tuesday that Japan
absolutely canno
ALSO: Japan has video.
nhk doesnt always keep their URLs active
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/daily/k/index6.html
Either someone is lying or there are more than 1 N.K. ship named Wise Honest!