South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said Thursday the fishing boat was towed into a North Korean port by a police boat early in the morning.
VOA: standard.2009.07.30
Continuing along the path, you will reach Kalasadam, the small fishing-boat harbour that gives the area its name (kala means fish, sadam means harbour).
At the height of the fishing-boat dispute, China stopped exports to Japan of these minerals, which are crucial for the manufacture of many high-technology products.
DeGeorge told officials he suspected the explosion was caused either by "hit men" working for the opposite side in a hotly disputed case he was litigating--a "suspicious-looking fishing boat" had circled his yacht, he said--or by the negligence of a repairman who left flammable material near a stove.