TOKYO — Twenty North Korean fishermen were thrown overboard after a large fishing trawler collided with a Japanese patrol ship on Monday, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported. According to Japan’s Coast Guard, a patrol ship for the Japanese fisheries agency collided with a large North Korean fishing boat around 9:10 a.m. on Monday in the sea between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, about 220 miles northwest of the Noto Peninsula in central Japan. NHK reported that the North Korean ship flooded and that 20 people were thrown overboard. According to the Japan Coast Guard, the country’s fisheries agency was rescuing the 20 crew members who fell overboard. Japan’s Coast Guard said in a statement: “We have confirmed that there was a collision, and we are currently investigating the details.”

Source: New York Times October 07, 2019 03:00 UTC