SYDNEY: Australia warned North Korea yesterday against smuggling drugs, summoning the communist state's ambassador after police seized a North Korean freighter allegedly involved in an A$80mil (RM190mil) heroin haul.
Thirty North Korean crew, two Malaysians, a Singaporean and a Chinese national have been charged with aiding and abetting in the import of 50kg of heroin around two weeks ago. The North Koreans have protested their innocence.
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