Dai Hong Dan incident

*Dai Hong Dan* incident
Dai Hong Dan incident
	Dai Hong Dan underway in 2007
Date	29 October 2007
Location	Indian Ocean, off the coast of Mogadishu
Resulted in	Sailors regain control of the ship
Parties
North Korean sailors; United States Navy	Somali pirates
Number
1 destroyer; 1 seized cargo vessel; 22 sailors	7 pirates
Casualties and losses
6 North Korean sailors wounded (3 seriously)	2 killed; 5 captured (3 wounded)

The Dai Hong Dan incident took place on 29 October 2007, when the North Korean cargo vessel MV Dai Hong Dan (대홍단호) was attacked and temporarily seized by Somali pirates off Somalia. The following day, the crew of the vessel overpowered the pirates with the support of a US naval vessel.

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