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 by Staff Writers Moscow (AFP) Oct 2, 2019
Russian border guards opened fire on a North Korean boat in Moscow's Pacific waters on Wednesday, injuring five fishermen, Russia's security service said. Russia's frustration has been building in recent months over thousands of North Korean boats illegally fishing for squid off its far eastern coast. In one incident, a North Korean was killed and several Russian coastguards were injured in a shootout last month when the crew of one boat resisted arrest. "Five poachers were wounded, they are receiving medical assistance," the FSB national security service, which is in charge of border guards, said on its website. "As a result of failure to comply with the border guards' legitimate demands, gunfire was used to stop one of the vessels." The FSB said the North Korean boat was being held. In September, Russia detained hundreds of North Korean fishermen who were operating in the waters. The area is bordered by Japan, Russia and North and South Korea and disputes over fishing rights there are frequent. But the fear of detention or even death is not enough to deter impoverished North Koreans and experts say their government will not dare to crack down on their activities. The fishermen use rudimentary wooden boats and drift nets that have been banned in Russia since 2015 because they indiscriminately trap all marine life, from salmon to seals, and can endanger divers, local Russians complain.
N.Korea doubts prospects for future summit with US Seoul (AFP) Sept 27, 2019 US aggression and an obsession with disarmament mean another summit between Washington and Pyongyang is looking doubtful, North Korea said on Friday, even as it praised US President Donald Trump as "bold" and "wise". Washington has "done nothing for the implementing the joint statement" from the first US-North Korea summit held in Singapore last year, Kim Kye Gwan, advisor to North Korea's foreign ministry, wrote in a statement carried in Pyongyang's official news wire KCNA. The official then sl ... read more
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