Pyongyang is to release a South
Korean fishing boat and its crew, which it captured almost a
week ago when the
vessel `illegally intruded’ into its waters, state-run news agency KCNA
reported on Friday.
The 391Hungjin was seized on
Saturday when it `deliberately’ sailed into North Korean waters in the “East
Sea of Korea,” also known as the Sea of Japan, according to KCNA. However,
Pyongyang had decided to release the crew for humanitarian reasons after the
crew “honestly admitted their offence, repeatedly apologising and asking for
leniency.”
KCNA reported that the boat and its
crew would be repatriated at the military boundary line of the East Sea at 6
p.m. (0930 GMT) on Friday.
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