Can't we all just get along?
Written by: Beck
Japanese-Korean enmity goes back a LONG way. Specificially, it goes back to the end of the 16th century when the warlord Hideyoshi, in a rather misguided attempt to conquer the world, launched an unsuccessful invasion of the peninsula. Then when things like
this happen, it just gets bad all over again.
TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki -- A Japan Coast Guard patrol boat fired 20 tear gas grenades at a South Korean fishing boat Monday after spotting the boat operating illegally within Japan's exclusive economic zone, it has been learned.
Japan Coast Guard officials said a patrol boat ordered the conger eel fishing vessel to stop after it was spotted about 40 kilometers west of Tsushima at around 6:45 a.m. When the boat ignored the command and fled, the patrol boat opened fire with 20 tear gas grenades.
That's right, I read the Mainichi Shimbun. Cuz' INCITE readers should expect nothing but the best.