A battered wooden fishing vessel hold back eight part skeletonized bodieswashed ashore in northern Japanover the weekend . Disturbingly , it ’s just the latest in a strand of similar “ ghost ship ” that seem to be coming from North Korea .
At the moment , it ’s indecipherable how long the boat had been floating in the Sea of Japan before it was discover , but it can takeonly a few weeksfor bodies to fully turn over into skeleton in tender , humid environment .
The Japan Coast Guard spotted the 23 - animal foot - foresightful wooden ship drifting along the Akita Prefecture on Friday , but was not able to scrutinize the vessel until it washed ashore near the city of Oga on Sunday , according to Kyodo News . In plus to the organic structure , police detective found empty cigarette packages and life vest that seemed to have come from North Korea — clue that led potency to consider the all in mariner may have been North Korea defectors or fisher cat . The Korean Peninsula is located about 450 mile west of Japan ’s west coast
But this ship of clay is just the latest in an alarming trend . According to The Japan Times , 11 bodies believed to have come from Korea were find along Japan ’s coast last year . In 2015 , it was 27 . In addition , Sky News reportsthat 44 seemingly Korean vessels have washed ashore or been spotted off the slide of Japan this year .
Since North Korea start facing famines in the 1990s , about 30,000 citizen have defect from the country . But many of these “ ghost ships ” seem to be carrying dead fishers who intended to return to North Korea .
Satoru Miyamoto , a professor at Seigakuin University and North Korea expert , told CNNthat more and more ship have been appear on Japan shores since 2013 . “ It ’s after Kim Jong Un determine to expand the fisheries industriousness as a way of increasing revenue for the military . They are using old gravy holder manned by the military , by people who have no cognition about fishing , ” Miyamoto severalize CNN . “ It will continue . ”
Seo Yu - Suk , a researcher at Seoul ’s North Korean Studies Institutiontold Sky Newsthat as the United States has put impregnable authority upon the nation , North Koreans are coerce to travel far aside from shoring for prospicient periods of prison term for gather more Pisces .
Last Thursday , another sauceboat transport eight menwashed ashore in the Akita Prefecture . Those men , however , were alive and enjoin government they were fishing for calamary and planned on returning to North Korea .
[ The Japan Times / Kyodo News / CNN ]
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