Greetings and welcome to the Friday, May the 15th, 2026 edition of Denison Forum's Daily Article

Podcast. Dr. Ryan Benison, senior editor for Theology, wrote today's daily article. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrator. In 2024, just a couple of days before Christmas, the Russian ship, M.V. Ursa Major, sank about 60 miles off the coast of Spain.

While the loss wasn't noteworthy, the world moved on pretty quickly.

However, the down ship is back in the news today in large part because CNN released new details on the incident,

details which point to the nuclear

nature of the ship's true cargo, and a western plot to ensure that it never reached its final destination.

The Ursa Major was owned by the state-linked Oberyn Logistics Company and was part of Russia's

ghost fleet, a group of ships used to evade sanctions

and transport illicit or secret cargo. On this particular occasion, the ship's stated destination

was the Far East, where it claimed to carry, quote, significant project cargo as part of state

tasks aimed at developing port infrastructure and the northern

sea routes."

Ukraine believed it was on its way to retrieve Russian military equipment for Syria after

Bashar al-Assad's regime fell a few weeks earlier.

However, its captain would later state that their final destination was intended to be

North Korea, and that revelation was far more concerning. You see, just two months before the

Ursa Major made its way to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, North Korea sent roughly 10,000

soldiers to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Even at the time, it seemed a strange

move. North Korea and Russia had become closer allies as the war dragged on, but sending its own

citizens to die marked a dramatic shift from simply supplying weapons and munitions.

Granted, Kim Jong-un shows little regard for the lives of his people, and he very

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