Yet another North Korean boat carrying a dead body has been found adrift in Japanese waters. Japanese police said on Wednesday they found a man's skeleton in a fishing boat drifting off Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture.
Given the shape and other indications, the 7 m wooden vessel appears to have drifted from North Korea, they added.
A day earlier, the Japanese Coast Guard rescued four people aboard a North Korean boat that had been drifting off Shimane Prefecture due to engine trouble. They will be returned to the North once the boat has been fixed.
On Nov. 1 a fishing boat with one dead body was found washed ashore on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, and on Nov. 28 a boat containing five dead bodies.
A diplomatic source here said the North Korean regime is forcing people to earn hard currency, so an increasing number of fishing boats apparently work ever further out in the open sea and are wrecked by wind and waves.
Friday 14 December 2012
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