North Korea does not get its drugs/ship back.
From the BBC:
A North Korean cargo ship that was used to smuggle heroin into Australia has been sunk by an Australian fighter jet.
An F-111 aircraft bombed the Pong Su during target practice on Thursday at a secret location offshore, police said.
Australian troops seized the ship in 2003 after spotting it unloading part of a huge heroin shipment at a beach.
The Australian government said the bombing was a warning to North Korea to halt its involvement in drug smuggling – an allegation Pyongyang rejects.
“It is appropriate that we publicly demonstrate our outrage at what has happened by sinking this ship,” Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
The Pong Su’s cargo of heroin, worth about US$115 million (£66 million), would have provided four million hits of the drug on Australian streets, Mr Downer said.
Earlier this month, an Australian jury cleared the captain of the Pong Su and three officers of involvement in an international drug ring.
But four crew members who were involved in transporting the heroin from ship to shore pleaded guilty to drug charges.
Two have been sentenced to 22 and 23 years in prison and the other two are awaiting sentence.
The 3,500-tonne Pong Su was used to smuggle in more than 125 kilograms of heroin.
