North Korean border waters are often discussed in militaristic terms, but these seas are also facing an environmental overfishing crisis. Economic desperation, poor regulation and a variety of other factors are leading North Korean fishermen to strip the sea of its limited stock — but in the eyes of one North Korean fisherman, that’s hardly a problem.

Kim — a North Korean defector who used to cast his net from the DPRK before he fled to the ROK — said that South Korea’s fishing industry is a labyrinth of unnecessary rules and that he misses the wild capitalism of the DPRK. 

“It’s