Washington: Refraining from commenting over the detention of a North Korean ship by Indian authorities, a top US official Friday said New Delhi might have been acting under international and domestic law.
"We've gotten some of the facts in the case, a North Korean ship anchored in Indian territorial waters without notification, without permission. When it was approached, it
didn't answer. It was acting suspiciously," said Philip S Goldberg, Coordinator for Implementation of UNSC Resolution 1874.
"The Indian government then took action to bring it into port," Goldberg told reporters at a special State Department briefing on North Korea.
"The fact is that the Indian Government may have been acting under international law. It may have been acting under its own domestic law," he said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, August 14, 2009, 09:49