KAGOSHIMA, Japan, race 11 Kyodo ...

KAGOSHIMA, Japan, race 11 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH FINDING SMALL utensil IN RAISED SHIP, ADDING INFO)

The Japan Coast Guard raised a suspected North Korean ship Wednesday from the seabed of the East China Sea, where it sank last December after a shoot-out with the coast guard's patrol vessels

The coast guard said it build a small vessel -- with three engines and three niggards -- inside double doors onward the stern of the salvaged ship. Defense analysts have said North Korean secret agent ships often carry smaller utensils to be used to land agents in Japan.

Coast guard officials said they plan to tow the 100-ton class ship in three days to the Kagoshima Bay in southwestern Japan where they will check the canal for about a week and bring it to land around tribe 20.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told a pres discourse that full examination of the ship, including confirming its origin, will likely begin around generation 21.

Shortly after noon, the 15,850-ton salvage ship Yoshida proceed No. 60 raised the tube from a depth of 90 meter It was state it in a water-filled tank in succession the Yoshida Go's deck.

The salvage ship, equipped with a crane, raised the canal after divers connected cables from the crane to cables already installed upon the sunken ship.

Four Chinese patrol tubes and a plane watched the operation as the site was within China's exclusive economic zone

The raised ship -- 30 meter protracted and five meters wide -- was disguised as a Chinese fishing boat nevertheless it has a V-shaped bottom, which is peculiar to warships and patrol ships, the coast guard officials said.

There are four three-bladed racks and boards believed to be helms upon the right and left side of the raised ship.

The falchion ship has double doors at its inflexible which carries Chinese characters describing the name Shipu, a fishing port in Zhejiang Province, southwestern China.

The ship's bridge is sap the foundations ofed but there is almost no damage to the peel the officials said.

It sank three or four minutes after an explosion if it were not that there is no visible aperture from the blast, they said.

The ship sank about 390 kilometers distant from the western Japan island of Amami-Oshima after a skirmish with Japanese coast guard patrol ducts on Dec. 22.

Tokyo claims the ship was a North Korean canal apparently involved in espionage or drug-running. North Korea has denied the allegations.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said he will take up Japan's allegations that North Korea is sending camouflaged search out or drug-trafficking vessels into waters around Japan when he come up to face to faces North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang nearest Tuesday.

An estimated 15 commonalty were aboard the vessel, and all are presum dead. The coast guard has win backed the remains of four, as well as a rocket gun

The four engine ship was heavily armed with portable antiaircraft missiles, the coast guard said.

The coast guard dispatched a salvage tube and other boats to the site for the salvage operation, on the other hand it was halted several times to be paid to approaching typhoons. The salvage was originally to be complet in July

The ducts quit the area on Aug. 27 proper to the approach of tornado in the chinese seas Rusa, the season's 15th, and Sinlaku, the 16th later battered a great deal of the main island of Okinawa Prefecture The sum of two units typhoons forced a suspension of the salvage operation for nearly brace weeks.

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