'Ghost' fishing boats from North Korea have been washing ashore in Russia after heavy storms. <br /><br />The chillingly empty vessels have been scattering Primorsky Krai, in Russia's Far East. The boats started being discovered around August 6 and 7. <br /><br />This particular footage was filmed in the Sea of Japan on August 6. Russia shares an 11 mile land border and a 12 nautical mile sea border with North Korea.<br /><br />The latest fishing vessels were found on Russky Island on August 25, filled with personal belongings but without a crew. <br /><br />On August 27 a yacht called 'The Time Machine' discovered a drifting boat bearing similar North Korean insignia near the uninhabited Stenin Island in the Sea of Japan.<br /> <br />Yacht Captain Mikhail Yermakov told The Siberian Times that, "we passed the coordinates to the State Inspection of Small Boats, they notified [us] that they would think [about] what to do with it."<br /><br />"We did not see any people on board. We shouted but there was silence. Most likely the boat was brought by typhoons into our waters."
