S. Korea to repatriate 10 N. Korean fishermen

SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea informed North Korea on Monday of its plan to send back 10 fishermen found on a drifting boat, a Seoul ministry said.

The South's coast guard rescued them as the vessel was drifting Sunday afternoon due to an engine problem near the South's uninhabited islets of Dokdo in the East Sea, according to the unification ministry.

All of them wanted to go back to the North, it said in a press release.

"(We) plan to repatriate them to the North on Tuesday afternoon," the ministry said.

The South notified the North in a fax message, signed by its Red Cross and delivered through the liaison channel at the truce village of Panmunjom, it added.

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