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N. Korea fingered over gruesome cargo found on Japanese shores
Reports emanating from Japan suggest that the series of boats filled with dead bodies may have been from North Korea.
At least eight wooden boats have been found of the coast of Japan and clues found on the boats have North Korean imprints.
A Korean lettering on the hull of a boat containing 10 decomposing bodies, one of three boats which were found adrift off the city of Wajima on the west coast of Japan on November 20 is the first clue pointing at that direction.
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The writing said “Korean People’s Army,” the name of North Korea’s military defense forces, the coast guard revealed.
Japan’s biggest broadcaster NHK also reported that another clue could come from a tattered scrap of cloth found on one of the boats, which looks like it could be from a North Korean national flag.
“There’s no doubt that these boats are North Korean,” John Nilsson-Wright, head of the Asia program at the Chatham House policy institute.
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