North Korea Calls On Australia To Pay Reparations

North Korea on Tuesday called on the Australian government to pay reparations for a North Korean vessel and its crew members seized three years ago on suspicions of trafficking narcotics. "The Australian government must sincerely apologize following the outcome of the trial, and compensate the crew members it has detained until now for their physical and mental losses from the seizure of the crew and their boat," an association of North Korean residents in Japan said in a commentary carried by the North's Korea Central News Agency.