00:01Seoul reports a South Korean ship caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:05The South Korean Foreign Ministry records no casualties among its 24 crew members,
00:09and authorities are still investigating what caused the blaze.
00:13But U.S. President Donald Trump claims this was caused by an Iranian attack.
00:17This as U.S. and Iran begin a new series of attacks to wrestle control over the strategic waterway.
00:22Meantime, Trump also launches a new operation to aid stranded ships in the strait called Project Freedom.
00:27He urges South Korea to join the operation seeking to open the Strait of Hormuz.
00:32Before this, several merchant ships in the Gulf already reported explosions,
00:36with the U.S. destroying six small Iranian military boats.
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