Following North Korea’s seizure of a South Korean fishing boat, the Daeseung, in the East Sea, the South Korean government is pushing for the installment of a mandatory location beacon on boats fishing near the inter-Korean maritime border

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries says that the tracking devices were mandatory only on fishing vessels operating in the open sea. It is reviewing expanding the scope to prevent those fishing near the coast and the inter-Korean border from accidentally crossing into North Korean waters.

The ministry added that it would station a monitoring vessel in the waters where the Daeseung was captured each squid fishing season to prevent squid fishing boats from going astray.

The guide boat was deployed near Ulleung Island and the Dokdo islets at the time of the capture.