Hostile Policy Update

Scores of North Korean trawlers fishing for blue crab crossed the Northern Limit Line near Yeonpyeong Island in the West Sea for three consecutive days from Sunday to Tuesday. Military authorities are at a loss how to respond.

A government source on Tuesday said between 20 and 50 North Korean fishing boats crossed the de-facto sea border in waters northwest of Yeonpyeong Island for three straight days since Sunday. “They returned north after fishing for three to four hours until South Korean high-speed patrol boats arrived.” [Chosun Ilbo]

This doesn’t sound completely inadvertent, somehow.