An empty wooden ship washed up in Japan — and it looks like another mysterious North Korean ‘ghost ship’

Kyodo via Reuters

• An empty wooden vessel was found drifting off Japan’s western coast earlier this week.
• It was found floating in a rocky area around 164 feet off the island of Hokkaido.
• Though it’s not clear where the boat came from, town authorities think it may be from North Korea.
• Dozens of “ghost ships” from North Korea have drifted on Japanese shores in the past.

An empty, overturned wooden boat has been found drifting off Japan’s western coast, and it could mark the start of another flood of “ghost ships” from North Korea to wash up on Japan’s shores.

The vessel, measuring 8-meters (26-feet) long, was found floating in a rocky area off the island of Hokkaido on Wednesday afternoon, Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reported.

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