Posted on 12/03/2017 12:50:02 PM PST by bgill
Several wooden boats, some carrying skeletons, have mysteriously washed ashore in Japan in recent weeks. Authorities are still investigating where the so-called "ghost ships" came from, but experts say all signs point to North Korea. The Japanese coast guard on Thursday recovered one decrepit vessel drifting off the western coast of Matsumae town on the northern island of Hokkaido. Ten men found aboard the wooden ship identified themselves as North Koreans and said they were taking refuge at an island nearby due to rough weather... The Japanese coast guard has detected 59 cases so far this year of boats and debris washing up on the nation's northern coastlines, compared to 66 last year and 80 in 2012, according to The Associated Press. "I'm sure there are many that are sinking," Kingston said. "So it's probably a lot worse than we actually know."
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North Korean boat people, similar to those who fled Vietnam after 1975 and have been fleeing Cuba since 1958.
Go take a sister, then, by the hand
Lead her away from this foreign land
Far away, where we might laugh again
We are leaving, you don't need us
Guess any laughing won't be won't be in this lifetime.
The word is out. America is going to nuke us...... we better flee
My understanding is that any food is popular in North Korea.
Was watching a recent documentary about NK yesterday. Among other things said that fat bot is trying to amp up fishing industry to improve nutrition.
Seefood is popular in North Korea.
They see food and they go for it.
Yikes! How Bram Stoker...
No big mystery. People are willing to risk it all to get the eff out of NK.
Yeah, if these people are fleeing in boats, it’s likely with few or no provisions. That’ll make for a ghost ship.
Or, maybe they’re watching reruns of Sam Kinison routines, and saw the one about moving to where the food is?
It's sadder than that.
Kim Jong Un forces Peoples Army soldiers who have never been to sea and have zero navigation skills to go out far past sight of land to try to catch fish.
They often get lost and rarely catch much of anything.
> Go take a sister, then, by the hand
> Lead her away from this foreign land
> Far away, where we might laugh again
> We are leaving, you don't need us
> Guess any laughing won't be won't be in this lifetime.
I thought of that song too. You may recall, the reason the ships were wooden was that in the post-nuclear-holocaust setting of "Wooden Ships", metal had become contaminated with radiation.
Fat Boy has been contaminating his country for many years with his nuclear program, and it would not surprise me to learn that considerable anxiety exists about radiation poisoning among the populace.
"Horror grips us as we watch you die, all we can do is echo your anguished cry..."
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don’t need us
We had a boatload of Cubans show up in the middle the night and we are on Grand Cayman Island it was quite a spectacle
It’s totally amazing that boat but was able to float the hundred miles but it did and they were all praising Jesus when they got to land and they had crosses on the boat Course Fidels mooniomns probably would’ve tried machine gun them if they tried to leave during the day
Again it was quite a spectacle and the cayman authorities whisked them off
FR is probably the last place I'd expect to see people (me included) quoting lines from an old anti-war hippie song.
But, sadly, it appears to apply -- all too well -- to those poor folks trying to escape Norklandia.
North Korean nuclear tests sickening residents with 'ghost disease,' defectors say (FR Thread)
North Koreans who defected but once lived near a nuclear testing site in the rogue nation now believe they are experiencing the dangerous effects of exposure to harmful radiation — and it's triggered severe health problems, according to a report published Sunday."So many people died we began calling it 'ghost disease,'" Lee Jeong Hwa, who in 2010 escaped her home in Kilju County where the nuclear testing site Punggye-ri is located, told NBC News. "We thought we were dying because we were poor and we ate badly. Now we know it was the radiation."
Lee isn’t the only defector who believes the radiation is taking its toll on people who lived there.
South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported in November that close to two dozen defectors said the area surrounding Punggye-ri is turning into a “wasteland” where vegetation is dying and babies are born with deformities.
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