Tensions in the Yellow Sea: Crabs and the Inter-Korea Border Dispute

• Main Author: Ho, Shawn
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Country and Region Studies; East Asia and Asia Pacific
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81625; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40914
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There has been intensified competition between fishermen from China, South Korea and North Korea to catch blue crabs around the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea. As long as the maritime boundary between the two Koreas remains disputed, Chinese fishermen will continue to enter tho...