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Originally Posted by Johan Larson
"The history of such drifting arrivals goes back centuries, according to historical accounts." That seems odd.
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The numbers involved seem very odd. We're talking about professional fisherman in familiar waters, but 65 boats in 2014 and 80 in 2013 went astray, arriving after weeks as skeletons.
Considering
Salvador Alvarenga was at sea for 436 days and survived, I wouldn't think there'd be this rate of these fishermen dying in the timespan of a few weeks.
Secondly, it's only 600-800 km from North Korea to the points they're washing up on- weeks seems like a long time to me, but I'm willing to concede to reasonable arguments here.
Thirdly, some of the remains are described as bones and skulls. I'm not a forensic pathologist, but even with activity from sea birds this seems a bit advanced to me.
Perhaps the North Koreans are releasing derelict ships with corpses on them for weird reasons- disposing of political prisoners, scaring their neighbours, or indeed attempts at biological warfare?