HONOLULU – Three men had left just hours earlier when a large wave capsized their 19-foot skiff on Monday night. They swam through two miles of dark water before finding salvation: the tiny Pacific Island of Fanadik, several hundred miles north of Papua New Guinea.
For three days, the men remained stranded on the uninhabited island, hoping for help. In the end, their own ingenuity would facilitate their rescue: The crew aboard a Navy plane spotted the men waving life jackets, standing next to piles of palm leaves arranged to spell out four capital letters: H-E-L-P.
Once found, their families were notified and, in the end, they were put on a small local boat back to Pulap, from where they initially set out to sea. No injuries were reported.
The men were recovered on Thursday thanks to the coordinated efforts of Navy and Coast Guard rescuers.
TOKYO – North Korea has unveiled what it said was a domestically designed engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States, the latest threat coming from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Saturday’s announcement, through the official Korean Central News Agency, could not be immediately verified.
North Korea recently unveiled a missile with engines that did not look like those that had powered other recent launches. This left nuclear scientists scratching their heads.
On Saturday, KCNA said that North Korea had successfully tested, under Kim’s supervision, a new “indigenously designed” engine at the Sohae missile launch site near the country’s west coast.
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