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02-10-2018, 04:34 AM
TOKYO: Eight North Koreans rescued from a boat adrift near an island in northern Japan last year were deported home via China on Friday, an immigration official told AFP.
The eight men were part of a group of 10 North Korean "fishermen" spotted aboard a tiny wooden boat struggling in bad weather last November.
They are to return to North Korea from a Hokkaido airport via Beijing, a spokeswoman for the Sapporo Regional Immigration Bureau told AFP. Two other crew members remain in Japan, one of them in hospital with tuberculosis and the other, the boat?s 45-year-old skipper, facing charges of theft, she added.
The captain was arrested and indicted last year for stealing a power generator from a local fishery cooperatives facility on the island, part of Hokkaido -- the northernmost of Japan?s four main islands.Dozens of North Korean fishing vessels have washed up on Japan?s coast in recent years, with the number hitting a record 104 in 2017, up from 66 the previous year, according to the Japanese coastguard.
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The eight men were part of a group of 10 North Korean "fishermen" spotted aboard a tiny wooden boat struggling in bad weather last November.
They are to return to North Korea from a Hokkaido airport via Beijing, a spokeswoman for the Sapporo Regional Immigration Bureau told AFP. Two other crew members remain in Japan, one of them in hospital with tuberculosis and the other, the boat?s 45-year-old skipper, facing charges of theft, she added.
The captain was arrested and indicted last year for stealing a power generator from a local fishery cooperatives facility on the island, part of Hokkaido -- the northernmost of Japan?s four main islands.Dozens of North Korean fishing vessels have washed up on Japan?s coast in recent years, with the number hitting a record 104 in 2017, up from 66 the previous year, according to the Japanese coastguard.
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