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According to the paper’s sources, officials suspect the ship was targeted by the forces of a Western country in order to prevent the delivery to North Korea of two nuclear reactors allegedly being transported aboard the vessel. The vessel, built in 2009, was controlled by Oboronlogistika, a company that is part of the Russian Defence Ministry’s military construction operations, which had previously said it was en route to the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok with two giant port cranes lashed to its deck. Russia’s embassy in Spain was cited by the state RIA news agency as saying it was…
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