Four Korean Coast Guard officers hurt by Chinese fish pirates

by Robert Koehler on April 30, 2012

in China, South Korea

Four Korean Coast Guard officers were hurt when they were attacked by the crew of a Chinese fishing boat that was illegally fishing in the waters near Hongdo.

Nine Chinese sailers were arrested.

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1 Year of the Dragon April 30, 2012 at 1:25 pm

It’s not really news any more, it’s more like just a monthly occurrence.

They won’t be happy until they control the world, either though manpower, or monetary/trade power.

2 αβγδε April 30, 2012 at 1:39 pm

These fisherman have no scruple killing to preserve their own interest. It’s like the moral borders of decency stops precisely where their skin starts, if not beneath even that. Or, more like, that sense of decency starts with China and stops right there too, the mad horde. There ought to be more incidents of Chinese fishing boats being blown out of the water where they don’t belong.

3 jkitchstk April 30, 2012 at 2:21 pm

# 2 αβγδε,
“There ought to be more incidents of Chinese fishing boats being blown out of the water where they don’t belong.”

After edit…
There ought to be incidents of Korean cars being blown up when they don’t follow traffic laws and get stuck in the middle of intersections blocking my bus from going through green lights.

4 깊은 구멍 속에 April 30, 2012 at 2:29 pm

@3 plenty of your buses block the intersections keeping motorists like myself from traversing as well.

5 ZenKimchi April 30, 2012 at 7:03 pm

Your bus actually cares what color the light is?

6 ZenKimchi April 30, 2012 at 7:03 pm

Actually, I’m happy to get home without my bus driver getting into another fistfight.

7 slim April 30, 2012 at 11:18 pm

Even by the most forgiving of logical standards, it is hard to understand how or why this thread on Chinese barbarism has been diverted to aimless chatter about driving habits.

8 cm May 1, 2012 at 12:50 am

If I was one of those weaponless, unprotected coast guards who must board and subdue these savages, I would walk out and refuse to do my job as a protest. Five or six guys boarding these boats with anywhere from 12 to 30 Chinese fishermen waving their axes without any protection is crazy, and totally irresponsible of the Korean government who are sending them with orders not to hurt the Chinese. There are only 215 Korean coast guards who are responsible for patrolling the entire Yellow sea against the Chinese boats, it is impossible for these guys to do a proper job. Most of the fish looting probably go unnoticed, or they do get noticed but Korean coast guards can’t do anything because they are severely under manned.

9 jk6411 May 1, 2012 at 2:06 am

Were those coast guard officers who were hurt?
I read that they were “officials” from the ‘West Sea (Yellow Sea) Fisheries Management Agency’. (I don’t know whether they were armed or not.)

The Chinese ship was then chased down and caught by Korean Coast Guard.

10 bumfromkorea May 1, 2012 at 2:58 pm
11 silver surfer May 1, 2012 at 5:30 pm

H’argh! Anything for a bit of fish.

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