North Korean Boat Attacks Russian Ship in Latest East Asia Border Clash
By Tom O'Connor On 9/17/19 at 1:13 PM EDT
A North Korean vessel attacked a Russian border police ship in what was the latest dramatic standoff along the tense, sometimes disputed borders of Northeast Asia.
In a statement sent Tuesday to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that the "crew of a North Korean vessel [with over 45 people onboard] carried out an armed attack on the members of a monitoring group of the border guards' ship" in the Sea of Japan, known to the Koreas as the East Sea. As a result, "three servicemen received various injuries," according to the service.
Russian border guards then reportedly detained the attacking ship, as well as another North Korea ship and 11 motorboats, accusing them of poaching within Russia's exclusive economic zone
