{"id":97442,"date":"2026-05-04T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97442\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:30:23","slug":"south-korean-ship-attacked-near-strait-of-hormuz-countrys-government-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97442\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean ship attacked near Strait of Hormuz, country’s government says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A South Korean ship sailing near the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> was attacked on Monday, according to the Korean media outlet Chosun Daily, citing a government official.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, the outlet quoted an official from the South Korean<\/a> Foreign Affairs Ministry saying that the Korean government was still verifying the attack.<\/p>\n

“We have initially confirmed that there have been no casualties among our nationals as of the first check,” the official said.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, an American official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that Iran’s navy did not hit a United States Navy<\/a> ship near the Strait after\u00a0the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-aligned Fars News Agency claimed that two missiles had hit a US naval frigate near the port of Jask at the Strait’s southern entrance.<\/p>\n

In addition, Iran<\/a> has prepared other scenarios that it will activate “if necessary,” according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, citing an unnamed source.<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, Iran has repeatedly claimed to have struck several US naval ships operating in the region, including the USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a> aircraft carrier in early March.<\/p>\n

US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a X\/Twitter post that two US-flagged ships successfully transited the Strait on Monday.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM earlier confirmed that no US ship had been hit, adding that “US forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports.”<\/p>\n

“The missiles launched didn\u2019t even come close,” added CENTCOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Korean ship sailing near the Strait of Hormuz was attacked on Monday, according to the Korean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,34,424,2169,106,101,736],"class_list":{"0":"post-97442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-hormuz","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-irgc","11":"tag-missile-attacks","12":"tag-south-korea","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","14":"tag-us-navy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116517262121888008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}