Ghost ships: Bodies and boats unsettle Japanese community (2017)

The Japanese Coast Guard says it has seen a surge of North Korean boats fishing in the Yamato Shallows, a prime fishing ground located partly within Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone, roughly a 24-hour journey by sea from Japanese land. An official with the Coast Guard, speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity, said Coast Guard ships warned off around 1,900 North Korean boats in the last five months. On November 28, Coast Guard vessels encountered a North Korean boat with ten crew members on board drifting off the Japanese coast.

Source: edition.cnn.com