Fending off Marines with sticks

Donald Douglas has this story about Panama detaining a North Korean vessel, which tried to pass through the canal with contraband weapons hidden under thousands of bags of Cuban brown sugar.

The vessel was impounded on Sunday after the crew, armed with what officials called sticks, tried to fend off Panamanian marines investigating whether it was carrying contraband. They found old radar, missile and aircraft components buried in the hold of the ship, underneath more than 200,000 bags of Cuban brown sugar.