Here in northwest Oregon we are just starting to receive 10 meter FM openings to Asia, although I have had numerous CW and SSB contacts for the past year to Japan, Guam, Ogasawara Island, ZL, VK, KH6, FK8 this past week was the first time that we had solid asia signals on 10 meter FM.
This past sunday another ham and myself in Northwest Oregon heard for the first time non ham intruders which were determined to be North Korean squid fishing boats operating near the asiatic Russian coast, north of Japan, operating on 28.175 and 28.275 MHz FM.
Even though they were not ham stations and probably coming in on multihop sparodic E, it was still interesting listening to these NK fishing boats fading in and out for over 2 hours on 10 meters.