{"id":17567,"date":"2011-01-21T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2011-01-21T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:33:34","slug":"south-korea-f-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17567","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;South Korea!  F*** Yeah!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Korea special forces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/africa\/S-Korea-Military-Rescues-Hijacked-Ship-Off-African-Coast-114351089.html\">recapture a tanker from Somali pirates<\/a>, killing eight, capturing five, and rescuing the entire crew unharmed (except for the tanker&#8217;s captain, who suffered a non-lethal gunshot wound):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Lee Myung-bak went live on national television to announce the successful conclusion of the five-hour operation, 1,300 kilometers northeast of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lee told the country South Korea will not tolerate future attacks on any of its nationals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ROK special forces, with help from unspecified &#8220;other nations&#8221;, apparently snuck up on the tanker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News reports say a navy ship from Oman was on the scene to support the South Korean operation.<\/p>\n<p>On board the Malta-flagged chemical tanker was a crew of 11 Burmese, eight South Koreans and two Indonesians. It is operated by South Korea\u2019s Samho Shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Military officials in Seoul say a South Korean naval destroyer, the <em>Choi Young<\/em>, with 300 special forces aboard, tailed the hijacked ship for days before moving in early Friday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/photo\/images\/attachement\/jpg\/site1\/20100806\/0013729e42ea0dc608e05d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"241\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ROKS Choi Young.  Because I can, that&#39;s why.<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, I know; look for peaceful solutions, they&#8217;re impoverished, yadda yadda.<\/p>\n<p>But 21 innocent sailors are free today.<\/p>\n<p>Yay, ROK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Korea special forces recapture a tanker from Somali pirates, killing eight, capturing five, and rescuing the entire crew unharmed (except for the tanker&#8217;s captain, who suffered a non-lethal gunshot wound): President Lee Myung-bak went live on national television to announce the successful conclusion of the five-hour operation, 1,300 kilometers northeast of Somalia. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17569,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions\/17569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}