Another North Korean fishing boat with a dead body was found off the coast of Sado Island in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture.<\/p>\n
Japanese police said the 10 m wooden boat with fishing equipment and a dead body of a man wearing boots with Korean lettering was drifting toward Sado Island. It seems that more than two weeks have passed since the time of death.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 28, another wooden boat carrying five dead bodies was discovered washed ashore on the island. It is also thought to have come from North Korea.<\/p>\n
The Japanese government does not believe these boats were carrying either defectors or spies but got lost while fishing in bad weather.<\/p>\n
An increasing number of objects from North Korea are drifting to Japan via East Sea. A 6 m log also reached Sado Island on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In January this year, a North Korean fishing boat with three fishermen and one corpse was discovered by Japanese police near Oki Island, Shimane Prefecture. The three fishermen were returned to North Korea.<\/p>\n
The reason seems to be that North Korean fishermen are under pressure to go further out to sea in fishing boats made for shallow waters. A diplomatic source said, “After Kim Jong-un came into power, he stressed the importance of earning foreign currency, which forced more and more fishermen to go farther out to fish despite the danger.”<\/p>\n
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