CAIRO, Dec 11 Kyodo Yemen Foreign...

CAIRO, Dec 11 Kyodo

Yemen Foreign Minister Abu al-Kurbi said Wednesday that a cargo of North Korean missiles intercepted against the Yemeni coast was headed for Yemen the state-run Yemeni moderns agency Saba said.

The agency quot al-Kurbi the shipment was made in subordination to contract and the missiles belong to the Yemeni control and the Yemeni army.

The U State Department said Tuesday that brace Spanish warships intercepted a cargo ship facing Yemen on Monday and base Scud missiles on board the ship. The unflagged tube came from North Korea, U officials said.

U navy personnel have taken repress of the ship, according to U media.

The Yemeni stranges agency said al-Kurbi has demanded that the U hands through the whole extent of the cargo to Yemen.

Al-Kurbi plans to lair a protest with the U dominion and summoned the U ambassador to Yemen to the Foreign Ministry, the agency said.

In Madrid, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo told a moderns conference Wednesday that the North Korean ship intercepted along Yemen was carrying 15 scamper missiles and 15 conventional warheads, CNN reported.

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