Russia Detained More Than 160 North Korean Sailors After Attack, FSB Says

Russia Detained More Than 160 North Korean Sailors After Attack, FSB Says

Russia

is holding 161 suspected North Korean poachers who were detained in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday after one of the boats they were on attacked a Russian patrol, the state-run RIA news agency said on Wednesday.

A Russian border patrol

discovered two North Korean schooners and 11 motorboats fishing illegally off its far eastern coast on Tuesday

and detained the first vessel, prompting the second one to open fire, RIA quoted Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying.

The Moscow Times

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/18/russia-detained-more-than-160-north-korean-sailors-after-attack-fsb-says-a67320

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20190918-00010005-newsweek-int