Japan lodges protest with North Korea over boat collision

Japan has protested to North Korea after one of its fishing boats collided with a Japanese patrol vessel in the country's exclusive economic zone, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday."We have protested to North Korea" via the embassy in Beijing, Abe said at a parliamentary session, adding Japan will take "resolute" action to prevent illegal fishing by foreign ships in its EEZ.The protest was made on Monday after the fishing boat defied repeated orders from the Fisheries Agency's vessel to leave the EEZ, a Foreign Ministry official said.The collision took place early Monday some 350 kilom…READ FULL ARTICLE