Nine North Korean refugees sail to Japan

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Source: BBC News

Japanese Coast Guards say they have found a boat carrying nine people, who say they are North Koreans, off the country's west coast.

Sailors found the wooden boat, carrying three men, three women and three boys, off the Noto Peninsula near Kanazawa.

The group told officials they wanted to go to South Korea. One man reportedly said he was a member of the military.

In recent years more and more North Koreans have been making their way to the South, but rarely via Japan.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14896999

[maxsolomon]

1. good luck to them - they'll need it.

i hope i live to see that narcissistic edifice collapse and korea united.