North Korean 'ghost ship' washes ashore in Japan with eight decomposed bodies on board
Seven more bodies were found when the coastguard returned on Monday and police believe they came from North Korea, with state broadcaster NHK reporting that a badge depicting former leader Kim Jong Il and founder Kim Il Sung was also discovered.
A cigarette box with Korean characters was also found.
Wearing the badges is mandatory for North Koreans and they form a key part of the regime's cult of personality. The bodies of seven men, lying inside small rooms inside the boat, were largely decayed, the police said.
Eight bodies have been recovered from a wrecked boat that washed ashore in central Japan, authorities said Tuesday, suspecting the vessel is the latest in a series of North Korean "ghost ships".
A wooden boat, which drifted ashore with eight partially skeletal bodies and was found by the Japan Coast Guard, is seen in Oga, Akita Prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on November 27, 2017.
An autopsy of one of the men on the boat shows he was aged between 30 and 50 and died in September previous year.
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Local police official Hiroshi Abe said: "We are trying to find their identities and if we can not find the owner of the ship, we will give it to the local government".
This is not the first time a spooky vessel from North Korea has turned up on the Sea of Japan coastline.
According to the Japan Coast Guard, suspected cases of North Korean boat arrivals rose to a record high 104 past year since comparable data became available in 2013.
However, coastguard officials believe it is the latest North Korean fishing vessel to wash up on the coast, following a record number of such cases past year.
Experts think the people on the ships were probably fishermen from North Korea in search of bigger catches and following strict government orders.
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