TOKYO: Japanese authorities said they are searching for several North Korean fishermen thrown into the sea off Japan’s northern coast after their boat collided with a Japanese Fisheries Agency patrol vessel and sank in an area crowded with poachers from the North.
About 20 North Koreans were aboard the boat, and an unidentified number were rescued by a Fisheries Agency ship after a search and rescue operation began, said agency official Satoshi Kuwahara.
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