Detained Ships Of North Korea Poachers Arrive In Russian Port Of Nakhodka - Border Service

VLADIVOSTOK (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th September, 2019) The detained ships of North Korean poachers, who attacked Russian border guards in the Sea of Japan, arrived on Friday in the Russian Far East port of Nakhodka, a spokesperson for the Primorsky Territory's department of the Border Service of the Federal Security Service told Sputnik.

On Wednesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said that four Russian border servicemen had been injured in the attack. Following the incident, the Russian border guards have detained at least 161 poachers, 2 fishing schooners and 11 motorboats from North Korea in the Sea of Japan.

"The [North Korean] ships are already anchored in Nakhodka," the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added that the poachers would be held on board of the ships for some time.

Since the sanctions against North Korea were tightened in 2017 over repeated nuclear and missile tests, the country's population has been making money through illegal trafficking of sea food, part of which is poached in the Russian exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan.