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| S. Korean, Japanese Patrol Boats Lock Horns Over Fishing EEZ |
| 2005-06-01 |
| South Korean and Japanese maritime patrol boats were locked in an hours-long confrontation off the coast of the southeastern port city of Ulsan Wednesday over a South Korean fishing boat that Japanese police claim had crossed into Japanese waters. The Japanese patrol boats sought to tow away a South Korean fishing boat as Japan claimed that the boat was fishing in the EEZ under its jurisdiction. But the South Korean Maritime Police also attempted to take away the boat to the port off Ulsan. The 77-ton boat, named ``Shinpung-ho'' was allegedly spotted inside the EEZ under the Japanese jurisdiction early Wednesday morning. But the boat fled to the Korean side EEZ with two Japanese maritime policemen who boarded the ship to arrest them. As the boat moved into the Korean's EEZ, the maritime patrol boats of the two countries vied for claiming their jurisdictional rights over the boat. It also said that a struggle ensued as the Japanese police sought to arrest the South Korean fishermen. Two Japanese police officers fell into the water before they were rescued during the scuffle, and a South Korean fisherman suffered a head injury inflicted by the Japanese police. The 39-year-old fisherman, named Hwang, was rushed to a hospital after he suffered an injury during a scuffle with two Japanese policemen who smashed windows of the pilothouse of the boat to arrest him. Banzai! The South Korean police said it could not punish the fishermen unless there is concrete evidence that they illegally fished inside the Japanese EEZ. Of course not. Any reason to stand up to the Japanese aggressors. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #2 Pass me the popcorn. This could be interesting. While the S.Koreans have forebodings about their northern cousin and the student population is in their late spring 'Yankee Go Home' runt, they really, really have a deep hard one for the Japanese and the less than quaint occupation of forty years from 1905-45. |
| Posted by: Throluth Clush3562 2005-06-01 18:45 |
| #1 ``Shinpung-ho'' Sounds like a sister to "Evoiks Away" |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-01 18:13 |