BEIJING - China expressed "grave concern" and compensation claimed Tuesday about weekend collision between Chinese fishermen and South Korean coast guards in the Yellow Sea led the death of one of the fishermen.
It was Beijing's first official comment as South Korean officials reported that a Chinese fishing boat Saturday after ramming leave dead capsized a South Korean patrol ship, a Chinese crew member had and another is missing.
The Chinese boat was about 50 that illegal fishing waters in South Korea were according to the South Korean officials who also has some other fishermen of the fight against the coast guard with metal tubes, shovels and clubs.
The clash follows an intense diplomatic showdown between Japan and China in September sea was triggered by Japan's detention from a Chinese fishing boat and its crew after a collision with a Japanese Coast Guard vessel in the vicinity of disputed islands in the East China.
Chinese State media incident had on Saturday in the effort obviously not to escalate that last month at the North Korean artillery attack on South Korean Island played down a tension in a region.
But China broke his silence Tuesday after North Korea announced that it would not reciprocate a South Korean artillery test Monday and UN inspectors would allow to check its nuclear sites.
"The Chinese side expressed its grave concern about the incident," a Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu said a regular news briefing in Beijing.
She said China had "solemn made representations" to South Korea, and calls it to rescue the missing fishermen to punish the perpetrators to offer compensation for the loss of life and property and ensure that such events not happen again.
You note that South Korea had deployed rescue immediately ships and helicopters of the scene, and that you always still missing fishermen were looking for.
However, your sharply worded statement could intensify concern in South Korea and other neighbors send, that China intentionally to meet his fishing boats in foreign or disputed waters to domestic demand.
More than 300 Chinese fishing boats are covered waters for fishing illegally in South Korea every year according to South Korea's coast guard.
Officer in 2008 of a Korean Coast Guard was killed and six others injured a scuffle with Chinese fishermen in South Korea fishing waters.
Last year, China has its territorial claims to almost all were also reasserting sea alarming several South China South-East Asian Nations who claim, parts of it.
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