.- South Korea is negotiating the delivery of captured Somali pirates for the release of the freighter "Samho Jewelry" to a third country, but has met with reluctance, reported a source in the South Korean Foreign Ministry told Efe. "We are negotiating with third countries to accept the pirates captured alive, but there are difficulties, especially in the case of money, because the costs are high," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.South Korean special forces on Friday freed the 21 crew of the cargo of 11 thousand 500 tons "Samho Jewelry" after six days in captivity in the Arabian Sea, with the result of eight pirates killed and five captured alive on the boat. The option that seems most likely that the five captured pirates to be transferred to South Korea for processing, which will be decided with the arrival of cargo at the port of Muscat, capital of Oman, which is expected this Thursday, according to agency Yonhap local.
Neighboring countries like Kenya, Yemen and Oman could prosecute the Somali pirates, but South Korea has no agreement with those nations to address the issue of captured pirates. The processes Somali pirates have flooded some poor countries like Kenya, which in 2010 refused to accept more cases as not received the aid promised by the international community to make this work.
Now the "Samho Jewelry" is heading to port to begin the return of the crew (eight South Koreans, eleven Burmese and two Indonesians) to their homes, which is expected very soon as this Saturday, according to newspaper Joongang Ilbo today . The five pirates are standing in a South Korean destroyer "Young Choi", escorting the "Samho Jewelry" in his return to earth, while the freighter captain is already in Oman to be treated for a gunshot wound that are severe.
The rescue operation involved the destroyer South Korea South Korea, along with speedboats and a helicopter, which had the support of an Omani warship. The rescue of "Samho Jewelry" took place about two months after a South Korean oil tanker of the same owner was released after more than 200 days in captivity by pirates by paying a ransom, which is estimated at about nine million dollars ( around 6.6 million euros).
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