{"id":21941,"date":"2011-01-21T09:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21941"},"modified":"2011-01-21T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:32:02","slug":"s-korea-takes-back-freighter-from-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21941","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea takes back freighter from pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess South Korea has drawn a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2011\/01\/20\/somali-pirates-seize-ship-vietnamese-crew\/\">line in the sea lanes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said.<\/p>\n<p>The military operation in waters between Oman and Africa, which also captured five pirates and left one crew member wounded, came a week after the Somali attackers seized the South Korean freighter and held hostage eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 citizens from Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not tolerate any behavior that threatens the lives and safety of our people in the future,&#8221; South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said in a brief televised statement, adding that the rescue was a &#8220;perfect operation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the fight against pirates is just becoming a battle drill. I wonder if the pirates are considering it risky behavior yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess South Korea has drawn a line in the sea lanes; South Korean special forces &hellip; <a title=\"S. Korea takes back freighter from pirates\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21941\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S. Korea takes back freighter from pirates<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}