Prosecutors in Moscow issued three indictments this week against North Korean fishermen accused of illegally fishing in Russian waters last September and attacking Russian border guards when they were caught, an announcement on a government website said.

The move comes after a separate indictment was issued earlier this month against another one of the accused North Korean poachers.

The indictments were first reported on Wednesday by the official TASS News Agency.

According to the prosecutor general’s office in Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District — a vast region that stretches from the northeastern tip of the DPRK to the American