A joint force, comprised of Korean military and maritime police as well as United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission, conducts an operation to crack down on illegal fishing by Chinese fishing boats in neutral waters around the estuary of the Han River, Friday. / Courtesy of Joint Chiefs of Staff. Korea Times
Reuters: South Korea, U.N. Command join patrols to halt illegal Chinese fishing
South Korea and the U.N. Command, which overseas the Korean War armistice, said on Friday they had begun a joint operation to keep Chinese fishing vessels from operating illegally off the west coast.
The move comes after South Korean fishermen, frustrated with incursions by Chinese fishing boats in defiance of coast guard warnings, used rope to impound two Chinese trawlers this month and handed them over to authorities.
South Korea's navy and coast guard joined with the U.N. Command to patrol the approximately 60 km (40 mile) stretch of waters in the Han River estuary that runs between the coasts of the rival Koreas, a Defence Ministry official told Reuters.
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WNU Editor: China is going to respond because it views some of this territory as their own.
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