According to public reports, in recent years, China fishing boats have been frequently detained by North Korea in the Yellow Sea near East longitude 124 degrees. Fishermen in China generally believe that this longitude is the boundary line between China and North Korea in the Yellow Sea, but it cannot be found in public documents.
In this "gray" sea area, China fishermen are in danger of being "hijacked" by North Korean patrol boats with machine guns every spring and autumn.
According to Jinghua Times
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Robberies were staged intensively.
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This is an undisclosed "kidnapping" at sea. The time is May 2, located in the Yellow Sea, east longitude 123 degrees 54 minutes, north latitude 38 degrees 15 minutes.
At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the wooden boat "Liaodanyu 25395" was pulling the net. Yu, the owner and captain of the ship, was suddenly surprised to find that a "Koryo boat" (called a North Korean patrol boat by local fishermen) was breaking through the waves and heading straight for his boat.
There are five or six fishing boats working together nearby, all galloping westward. Yu's boat has only 300 horsepower, so it can't outrun the patrol boat. At the position of 123 degrees 53 minutes, a "North Korean boat" with two machine guns at the tail forced the wooden boat to stop. There were 13 people on the patrol boat, two soldiers with semi-automatic rifles boarded the boat first, and the others followed with sticks one meter long.
"North Koreans just punched and kicked. They drove six crew members into the cabin and covered them. " Afraid of being beaten, Yu jumped into the sea and was taken on a patrol boat by the North Koreans.
It was more than four hours after the patrol boat of China Marine Police arrived at the incident area. Yu's ship passed east longitude 124 degrees, and then docked at Jiaodao, North Korea.
In the next few days, I was forced to write a confession. "They asked me to write, and they caught me at 0/24 degrees east longitude/kloc-0. I didn't write it. I said,' I didn't cross the line at all, but you were wrong'. They hit me on the head. " Finally, I agreed to sign and was arrested at 123: 59.
After signing, the North Korean translator told Yu that he would be fined 200,000 yuan. I refused to pay, and the other party bargained, from 6,543,800 yuan to 6,543,806 yuan and 6,543,805 yuan. At about 2 pm on May 5, a South Korean fishing boat came to the North Korean waters with a "fine" of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan entrusted by her family. After receiving the ransom, the DPRK released him and his crew.
In the Yellow Sea adjacent to the east longitude 124 degrees, the experiences of China shipowners are intensively staged.
In the early morning of May 8 last year, three fishing boats owned by Dalian shipowners Zhang Dechang and Sun were controlled by unidentified North Korean armed men while fishing in the sea area of East longitude 123 degrees 57 minutes and north latitude 38 degrees 05 minutes. Three ships and 28 crew members were detained. North Korea demanded a ransom of 400,000 yuan for each ship and threatened to "deal with" these ships if they were not delivered within the time limit.
Zhang dechang refused to eat yabakui. Together with the other two ship owners, he contacted the media in Dalian and Shenyang successively, but "no one dared to take care of it." On the morning of the ninth day after the arrest of the ship, Zhang Dechang disclosed the matter on Tencent Weibo, causing public outcry. Since then, South Korean officials have made representations to North China. On May 2 1 day, Mifune returned from danger.
The day before 10 was robbed in Long Ming, that is, at 5 am on April 22 this year, the fishing boat "Yudanyu 3059" in Dandong also encountered a North Korean patrol boat while working at 38 degrees 24 minutes north latitude and 23 degrees 53 minutes east longitude.
Liu Fuchun, the owner of Yudanyu 3059, said that his ship was taken to the West Island of Korea, which is not far from Nanpu City, where the headquarters of the West Sea Fleet of Korea is located. His boat had 201.5 million yuan in cash to sell crabs, which was found by the DPRK. On April 23rd, a North Korean official informed Liu Fuchun that he would be fined 65,438+200,000 for crossing the border. In the end, Liu Fuchun was forced to sign the Cross-border Recognition, and the DPRK refused to return the "fine" of 95,000 yuan.
On the evening of May 5, when released, the Dalian shipowner lost contact with his "Liaopuyu 25222" at 1 1. One hour before the disappearance, the ship's position was east longitude 123 degrees 53 minutes and north latitude 38 degrees 18 minutes.
Afterwards, "Liaopu Fishing 25222" was confirmed to have been detained by the DPRK. The other party initially demanded a ransom of 1.2 million, which was later reduced to 600,000.
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The mysterious company brought by the redemption of ships
Zhang Dechang, the boss of Dalian, recalled that the DPRK provided them with a mobile phone number last year and asked them to call the ransom to each other. This mobile phone number belongs to Dandong, but later Zhang Dechang and others couldn't get in touch, and the number also became an empty number.
Zhang Dechang kept his mouth shut about the details, but the insider revealed some twists and turns. It is reported that Zhang Dechang and others rushed to Dandong to find someone familiar with the North Korean military to mediate, but the other party refused to help. The insider pointed out that the identity of the other party is the boss of the "helping boat" company.
"Help the boat" is a common saying in Dandong: Help means alongside, while the boat refers to the North Korean patrol boat. Yu, who has been engaged in fishing for more than 30 years, told reporters that more than 20 years ago, Dandong fishermen would go to North Korea to steal fish. 10 years ago, the middleman who acted as the agent for the "boat-helping" business with North Korea appeared. When fishing in the North Korean waters for one day, he had to pay two or three hundred yuan to the "boat-helping" boss.
With the depletion of fishery resources in China waters, more and more "boatmen" fishermen are fishing in North Korean waters. Monthly and seasonal agents have become the mainstream, and prices are also rising. A monthly ticket is about 2,500 yuan, a monthly ticket is 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, and a season ticket is 250,000 yuan. Yu said that if you are lucky, you can earn two or three hundred thousand a month.
According to local people in Donggang, there are currently three large-scale boat-assisting companies, which represent different sea areas for the DPRK. There are only two of them, one is Song Laoliu and the other is Yang Chuange, representing hundreds of fishing boats.
On May 23rd, the reporter saw at several docks in donggang city that some fishing boats only hung the China flag, while others planted the North Korean flag at the same time. It is reported that the North Korean flag is a "ship helper". The ship owner holds a special permit to cross the east longitude 124 degrees and enter a specific area in the Korean waters. When he meets a patrol boat, he will show his certificate and pass the customs. In fact, the company "Help the boat" has long been officially recognized. 20 10 in April, China Ocean Fishery Association and Korea Fishery Association signed the Agreement on Fisheries Cooperation in the East China Sea of Korea. "Bangchuan" company is actually a participant in the "China-DPRK Joint Fishing Project".
Yu told reporters that after the ship was detained by the DPRK, the family members had asked the company to try to settle privately, but the boss of the company refused on the grounds of "reporting to the official". He paid the ransom by entrusting the owner of the "help boat" he knew to take the money to North Korean waters and give it to the North Koreans at the joint.
Focus on the problem-
Where is the maritime boundary between China and North Korea?
What hangs over the shipowner's mind is the maritime boundary. In the office of Dalian boss Sun, there is a fishing map hanging on the wall. Sun said that every time he went out to sea, he emphasized to the captain that the east of east longitude 124 degrees was a restricted area.
However, the existence of this dividing line is the city by the sea. According to Southern Weekend, a number of scholars who study China-DPRK relations said that the maritime boundary between China and North Korea was not found in the official documents made public at present, and some boundary coordinate points were not made public in the records of previous open border negotiations. Where is the exclusive economic zone of North Korea, and where is the sea area where Chinese and North Korean fishermen share marine resources? These are not known to the public.
Frequent incidents of ship arrest show North Korea's aggressive posture: the location of ship arrest has gradually "advanced" from East longitude 123 degrees 59 minutes to East longitude 53 minutes, even closer to China.