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South Korea Repatriates North Korean Fishermen

   VOA News 07 January 2011

   A  South Korean official says Seoul has repatriated three North Korean
   fishermen rescued from a boat drifting in South Korean waters.
   Unification  Ministry  spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters that the
   fishermen  were  sent  back  to  the  North  at  the border village of
   Panmunjom on Friday.
   He  said  the  three  were  rescued  last month by a South Korean navy
   vessel near the disputed western sea border with North Korea.
   Chun  said  the fisherman told investigators they wanted to go back to
   their homeland.
   The two Koreas are still technically at war after the Korean War ended
   in 1953 with a truce.