Here is another example of the out of control Chinese fishing boats that continue to violate Korean waters and assault Korean authorities with the implicit backing of the Chinese government:

Three Chinese sailors being questioned about the capsizing of their fishing boat near Korea’s west coast admitted that the ship intentionally rammed a Korean patrol ship, according to the Korea Coast Guard yesterday.

“When the Korean patrol ship approached us, the captain first drove the boat toward China, but then he turned it around and hit the patrol ship,” one of the sailors told Korean investigators, according to officials of the Gunsan branch of the Korea Coast Guard.

The sailor was quoted as saying that the captain appeared to have turned his ship around to obstruct the patrol ship’s pursuit of another Chinese boat.

The two other Chinese sailors made the same statements, officials said. The testimony came after China demanded punishment for what it said was excessive use of force by the Korea Coast Guard in Saturday’s incident, which left the captain of the capsized Chinese boat dead and another sailor missing.

According to Coast Guard officials, the ship, the 63-ton Liaoyingyu 35403, overturned and sank 72 miles off Gunsan, North Jeolla, on Saturday, after ramming a 3,000-ton Korea Coast Guard patrol ship. The patrol ship was chasing another Chinese fishing boat, Liaoyingyu 35432, which it suspected was fishing illegally in Korea’s Exclusive Economic Zone.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

Besides the sailors defending the West Sea border there probably isn’t a more dangerous military job than being in the Coast Guard where these Chinese fishermen regularly attack and even killed a Coast Guard officer before.