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South Korea
\ndisclosed Sunday that two of its cargo ships were struck in the Strait of
\nHormuz on May 4, in separate incidents that Seoul is still investigating \u2014one
\ninvolving an aerial attack, the other a collision with an unidentified object.<\/p>\n
Foreign Ministry
\nspokesman Park Il told reporters that the HMM Namu was hit by two unidentified
\naircraft approximately one minute apart, triggering a fire in the engine room
\nthat spread rapidly through the vessel following the second strike. The
\naircraft appeared on surveillance footage but could not be precisely identified
\nin terms of type, origin, or size. Authorities plan to conduct further analysis
\non engine debris and other fragments recovered after the attack.<\/p>\n
All 24 crew
\nmembers aboard the Namu were confirmed safe and the fire extinguished, South
\nKorea’s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n
In a separate
\nincident on the same date, the ministry confirmed that a second HMM vessel,
\nwhich had been stranded in the strait, was struck in its rear section by an
\nunidentified object, following a field inspection by South Korean authorities.
\nNo further details were released on the nature of the object or the extent of
\nthe damage.<\/p>\n
Shipping
\ntraffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been largely blocked since late
\nFebruary 2026, when the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes
\non Iran. Iran denied responsibility for the attack on the HMM Namu, with its
\nembassy in Seoul firmly rejecting and categorically denying the accusations.<\/p>\n
Seoul’s Defense
\nMinistry said it would “carefully review its position” on joining
\nUS-led escort operations in the strait, citing international law, maritime
\nsafety, and alliance considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-10T15:00:13+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Seoul South Korea disclosed Sunday that two of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8634,8636,171,33,8633,116,8635],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-breaking","tag-hmm-vessel","tag-korean","tag-south-korea","tag-south-korea-two-vessels-struck-in-strait-of-hormuz-on-same-day","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-struck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}