U.S. Sells Seized North Korean Freighter. Money Will Likely Go To The Families Of Otto Warmbier And Kim Don Shik

A file photo of the Wise Honest.

Warzone/The Drive: U.S. Sells Seized North Korean Freighter As Pyongyang Threatens Nuke And Missile Tests

The money made from the sale will likely go to the families of Otto Warmbier and Kim Don Shik, who died at the hands of the North Korean regime.

The U.S. government has quietly sold off an ex-North Korean bulk freighter that it seized earlier this year in a sealed auction and the ship has left the port of Pago Pago in American Samoa under tow to an unknown destination. At least a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the M/V Wise Honest are likely to go to the families of Otto Warmbier and Kim Don Shik, who have both won judgments in U.S. courts against the North Korean government over the deaths of their loved ones. This sale also comes as U.S.-North Korean relations continue to cool, with the regime in Pyongyang renewing its threat to restart long-range missile and nuclear weapons testing if it doesn't see the progress it wants in future negotiations.

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