Second ship seized as Kim fights oil ban
Gaffe-prone duke’s jibe at wellwisher’s long beard
Kim Jong-un A SECOND ship has been seized by South Korea amid claims it was flouting UN sanctions by supplying oil to North Korea.
The tanker, Koti, with a Chinese and Burmese crew, was held in port by South Korean intelligence and customs.
It follows the seizure of the Lighthouse Winmore tanker in November, which was accused of transferring 600 tonnes of oil at sea to a North Korean ship.
Supplies to Kim Jongun’s rogue regime are being restricted after its nuclear or ballistic missile tests.
South Korean’s Foreign Ministry said: “The government has been in close consultations with related countries and ministries to implement sanctions by the UN Security Council.”
Prince Philip and Princess Anne yesterday SO the Prince of Prejudice came out of retirement to open his privileged mouth and put his pampered foot straight in it.
Once again, the Duke’s crass comments show he’s a relic, redundant in a modern world. Philip Mountbatten is a national embarrassment in a fundamentally decent country. Surely there must be a Crowds greet royals on way to church cell in the Tower to lock him away and then misplace the key?
Let’s cut the excuses when ignorant stereotypes, beards carrying a whiff of Islamophobia, divide rather than unite us.
LAWYER WHO WAS AT THE SANDRINGHAM CHURCH
I’d like to know which parts of Phil’s “unique sense of humour” the Queen was referring to in her Christmas message.
Was it quips about “slitty-eyed” Chinese, cannibals in Papua New Guinea or pot-bellied Hungarians?
Or asking the dance group Diversity if they were one family? Perhaps asking THE Duke of Edinburgh made yet another explosive gaffe yesterday when he saw a man with a long beard and asked: “Is that a terrorist?”
Prince Philip, 96, was greeting crowds at Sandringham while he walked to church when he turned to a bodyguard and made the joke about the man’s hipster-style ginger whiskers.
An onlooker said: “The man appeared to be his with wife and child. Philip was wishing people a Happy New Year then spotted this guy with a distinctive beard.
“He pointed at him in a funny way and turned to a bodyguard, saying ‘Is that a terrorist?’
“He was obviously having a little joke but he said it within earshot of the man, who burst out laughing and seemed to find it hilarious. I think Philip knew he was going to be overheard.”
JOKED
The bearded man left the Norfolk estate before he could be identified. Ian Smith, 39, a lawyer based in Switzerland, was at the church and said: “Everyone knows Prince Philip has a sense of humour, although some might have thought it was a risqué comment.”
Philip also joked with Alison Leggett, 54, of Hunstanton, Norfolk, after seeing her fox red Labrador lying on the wet ground. He pointed, saying: “I hope he hasn’t got rising damp.”
He walked to St Mary Magdalene Church from Sandringham House with daughter Princess Anne, 67, her hubby Sir Timothy Laurence, 62, Prince Edward, 53, and his daughter Lady Louise, 14. The Queen, 91, was driven to there with Sophie, Countess of Wessex, 52, in her Bentley.
However, there was no sign of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, or Prince Harry and his fiancée Meghan Markle.
William and Kate, both 35, are thought to be spending New Year with her family, while Harry, 33, and Meghan, 36, are believed to be on holiday as they plan their wedding in May.
Everyone knows Philip has a sense of humour, although some might have thought it risqué
IAN SMITH
women in a community centre who they sponged off – another instance of a bloke on the public payroll courtesy of marriage lacking self-awareness.
That the bloke with the beard laughed isn’t the point. The point is the Prince of Prejudice is a national liability. Retire him properly, gagged and locked out of sight.