4 held for allegedly smuggling fishing boat to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken last summer shows a secondhand fishing boat in Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture that was allegedly smuggled to North Korea. Police arrested the president of a ship-dealing company in Miyagi Prefecture and his three accomplices June 23 on suspicion of exporting the squid boat to North Korea without government approval.

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