{"id":43207,"date":"2019-12-20T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43207"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:22:34","slug":"thae-yong-ho-north-korean-fishermen-needlessly-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/thae-yong-ho-north-korean-fishermen-needlessly-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Thae Yong Ho: N. Korean fishermen are needlessly dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thae Young Ho, the former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, recently criticized North Korea\u2019s government for making North Korean fishermen suffer amidst emphasis on the need to increase seafood harvests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a Tuesday segment of \u201cWeekly North Korean Media\u201d \u2014 a YouTube show jointly produced by Daily NK and Unification Media Group \u2014 Thae argued that \u201cafter Kim Jong Un conducted field guidance at the \u2018August 25 Fishery Station\u2019 and \u2018Tongchon Fish Processing Station\u2019 last month, there\u2019s been a panic along the East Sea.\u201d \u201cKim Jong Un simply hands down orders for a bumper haul, but fishermen, also called \u2018fishing warriors,\u2019 are being driven to wit\u2019s end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[In order to carry out Kim Jong Un\u2019s orders] North Korean fishermen are risking their lives as they fish on their decrepit wooden boats in the cold winter,\u201d added Thae. \u201cThe fishing that is going on in the East Sea isn\u2019t just fishing but a war that takes people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite circumstances hazardous for fishing activities, North Korean fishermen are working anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a Nov. 22 article, the Rodong Sinmun reported that the \u201cDanpung\u201d line of fishing boats at all fishing stations were engaged in a vigorous fishing battle for greater productivity. \u201cThe waves are two to three meters high, the wind is blowing at a speed of 15 to 20 m\/s, and the fierce waves are flying over the pier and battering the ship\u2019s bridges,\u201d the paper reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42534\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uc55e\ub2e4\ubc14.jpg\" alt=\"Wonsan sea\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uc55e\ub2e4\ubc14.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uc55e\ub2e4\ubc14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uc55e\ub2e4\ubc14-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uc55e\ub2e4\ubc14-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uc55e\ub2e4\ubc14-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean fishing boats on the water near Wonsan, Kangwon Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe station dispatcher\u2019s frantic orders telling people to get to safety can be heard over the radio,\u201d added Rodong Sinmun. \u201cBut none of the fishing boats stopped or turned back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the intention behind this report is to highlight how fishermen are engaging in fishing activities in order to uphold Kim\u2019s orders, the article also reveals that the end result of this is that residents are being mobilized at risk to their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the fishing activity index provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration\u2019s weather forecasting service, waves higher than three meters and a wind velocity greater than 14 m\/s are classified as hostile. While ships greater than 15 tons are still able to leave port in these conditions, the agency says that this is dangerous and recommends caution in doing so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The weather conditions reported by Rodong Sinmun come close to meeting the requirements (waves equal to or higher than 5 meters, or winds equal to or greater than 21 m\/s) of South Korea\u2019s wind warnings, under which all fishing boats are prohibited from leaving port.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korean fishermen are heading into an extremely dangerous sea of death in order to uphold Kim Jong Un\u2019s orders,\u201d Thae said during the program. \u201cKim Jong Un should think again about whether it is worth risking people\u2019s lives in order to catch fish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, due to a marine resources development policy being aggressively implemented by North Korean authorities, North Korean fishermen suffering from a variety of accidents. Some cases are those in which North Korean fishermen take small boats to the vicinity of Japan to fish, only to be struck by catastrophe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of this, there are frequent sightings of bodies presumed to be North Korean fishermen along the western coast of Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are fishermen who are found dead in Japan after fishing in dangerous conditions,\u201d said former ambassador Thae. \u201cBut North Korea can\u2019t even retrieve the bodies because of cost-related problems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, from the Atsumi, Tsuruoka area in Yamagata Prefecture in Japan, Daily NK\u2019s special reporting team reported the discovery of a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/the-sacrifices-of-north-koreas-fishermen-what-drives-them-out-to-sea\/\"> wooden boat<\/a> and body that appeared to have floated down from North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thae Young Ho, the former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, recently criticized North Korea\u2019s government for making North Korean fishermen suffer amidst emphasis on the need to increase seafood harvests.\u00a0 On a Tuesday segment of \u201cWeekly North Korean Media\u201d \u2014 a YouTube show jointly produced by Daily NK and Unification Media Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":42917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-43207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis-and-opinion","tag-thae-yong-ho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thae Yong Ho: N. 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