A badge portraying former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il was also found nearby. It was the second such discovery in Japan this month. The number of ghost ships - vessels ...

It comes days after a group of men claiming to be North Korean fishermen washed onshore in the same area. Crew-less boats or vessels with bodies on board, known as "ghost ships" and thought to be ...

Five remains were determined to be male. The wooden boat is believed to be a North Korean "ghost ship," about a hundred of which wash ashore in Japan every winter when the Sea of Japan turns ...

As the North Korea-Russia trade picks up ... effectively turning them into ghost ships as they make the relatively short trip ...