The final score, South Korea; 21 rescued, one wounded ship’s captain, and a recaptured 11,500-ton chemical freighter. Somali Pirates; eight dead, five under arrest, no ransom, and loss of pirate boat.
Commandos attack, and pirates die; South Korean navy show the world how to do anti-piracy
Commandos from the South Korean navy stormed a ship earlier today that had been hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, killed at least eight of the pirates in cabin-to-cabin gunfights, captured five other pirates who wisely chose capture over death, and rescued all 21 hostages aboard the 11,500-ton chemical freighter.
The commando force suffered no injuries. The ship’s captain suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound during the operation. The South Korean force had a little help from a nearby U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, which also provided a helicopter to transfer the wounded Korean ship’s captain.
See also:
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Unfortunately, for every successful operation like this, there’s at least a dozen hijackings that the pirates get away with and get paid for. Sooner or later, unless they want to keep paying ransoms every other week,the Western powers are going to have to send forces ashore, hit these Somali bastards where they live, and destroy their piracy infrastructure.
/calling Stephen Decatur
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Eat It Or Wear It 
You really haven’t arrived as a 21st centuyry naval power until you’ve offed some Somali pirates, it seems
Good Heavens, you mean the U.S. should go back into Somalia after BlackHawk Down? (well, given that Clinton was POTUS then, and was a better POTUS than the current occupant of the WH) maybe we ought to let someone else go into Somalia …………………why do I think that, had they the capacity, China might do so (for the exercise of it, if nothing else)?