WAR DRUMS: NORTH KOREA DEMANDS PANAMA TO RELEASE THEIR SHIP

Panama City, Panama (CNN) – North Korea has a message for Panamanian authorities who seized a cargo ship packed with sugar and weapons: 
Release the boat and let the crew go. 
”The Panamanian investigation authorities rashly attacked and detained the captain and crewmen of the ship on the plea of ‘drug investigation’ and searched its cargo but did not discover any drug,” a spokesman for North Korean’s Foreign Ministry told state-run KCNA on Wednesday. “Yet, they are justifying their violent action, taking issue with other kind of cargo aboard the ship. 
This cargo is nothing but aging weapons which are to send back to Cuba after overhauling them according to a legitimate contract.”  According to the state media report, the spokesman described the incident as an “abnormal case.” ”The Panamanian authorities should take a step to let the apprehended crewmen and ship leave without delay,” the spokesman said, according to KCNA.  
But Panama showed no signs of stopping its investigation into what it said were undeclared 
military weapons hidden aboard the North Korean ship. More