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Four bodies were found near a boat washed ashore along the coast of Yamagata Prefecture on Sunday. Japan Coast Guard officials say the four may have come from North Korea.
The bodies were spotted at around 8:40 a.m. by a male passerby, Fuji TV reported. The bodies were among rocks near the battered wooden boat that had washed ashore in Tsuruoka City.
According to the coast guard, the boat was wrecked and pieces of it were scattered about. Furthermore, the bodies showed signs of decay and their sex could not be determined.
The coast guard said that considerable time must have elapsed since their death. No means of identification were found on any of the corpses.
This year, incidents of drifting wooden boats containing both bodies and survivors from North Korea have become a repeated occurrence along the Sea of Japan coast.
© Japan Today
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badman
How bad must your life be to risk it by drifting out to sea?
Gobshite
How many arrived, undetected? That should be the main story.
smithinjapan
Gobshite: "How many arrived, undetected? That should be the main story."
Amazing how badly some people buy into the paranoia. If Japan were honestly THAT bad at detecting spies they deserve to be infiltrated. However, these were very likely just people fleeing or fishermen.
socrateos
They keep coming, alive or dead. Why so many this year?
clamenza
Impossible. A few JT posters here claim N.K. is a socialist utopia.
serendipitous1
Finding waterlogged, decaying bodies must be pretty hard to forget. Feel sorry for those that found them.
Toasted Heretic
Nobody has claimed such a thing. The tyranny of the Kim dynasty and the peculiarities of Juche have nothing to do with socialism.
As for the poor devils who perished, this will happen more and more as the sanctions tighten. And we will see more fishing incursions as the ordinary people of the DPRK starve.
toshiko
Expect more will be found. Japan may need to create humanitalian based assilum project.