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Kang Tae-jun
Tae-jun Kang is the NK News East Asia Correspondent and is based in Hong Kong. Prior to writing, he worked as a riot police officer in South Korea for two years.
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News N. Korean sailor convicted of illegal fishing in Russian watersRussian court fines North Korean skipper for illegal squid fishing The captain of a North Korean fishing boat has been convicted of illegal squid fishing in Russian waters by a Nahodka City court, the Voice of Russia reported on November 21. The North Korean fishing boat trespassed into Russia’s economic zone between August 9 to 13 and caught over 5,000 squids of a value of around $1200, the Voice of Russia said, quoting an official November 20 court dispatch. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |