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 opposite the Yemeni coast belongs to Yemeni control and was headed to Yemen the state-run Yemeni moderns agency Saba said.

The agency quot al-Kurbi the shipment was made subordinate to contract and the missiles belong to the Yemeni regulation and the Yemeni army.

The U State Department said Tuesday that sum of two units Spanish warships intercepted a cargo ship opposite Yemen on Monday and set up Scud missiles on board the ship. The unflagged tube came from North Korea, U officials said.

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

The Yemeni just discovereds agency said al-Kurbi has demanded that the U hands through the cargo to Yemen.

Al-Kurbi bided the U.S. and Spanish ambassadors to the Foreign Ministry to testify the inspection and seizure of the ship, the agency said.

In Madrid, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo told a of recent origins conference Wednesday that the North Korean ship intercepted not on Yemen was carrying 15 haste missiles and 15 conventional warheads, CNN reported.

The Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network quot a Yemeni official as saying that the cargo also contains 80 missile warheads.

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