While the US naval mission "Project Freedom", launched yesterday to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, so far it does not seem to have been successful, for example with the exception of some ships transited in the area under the escort American military, attacks on ships present have resumed in the region, with the most serious occurred yesterday against the ship South Korean shipping company's HMM Namu heavy lift HMM on which, 14 nautical miles west of Mina Saqr, in the United Arab Emirates, an explosion occurred which resulted in a fire followed.

Expressing deep concern about the first damage suffered by a Korean ship in the Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war in Middle East, today Kim Jina, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the South Korea, confirmed that the accident caused no casualties.