Rescues of North Korean fishermen off the coast of Russia’s Far East appear to have increased this year, a Maritime Rescue Coordination Center official in Vladivostok said Monday.
Six North Koreans were rescued on October 4 from two separate submerged fishing vessels off the coast of Nakhodka following a storm days earlier, the official, Nikolay Pirozhkov, told Russia's state-run TASS new agency.
Rescues of North Korean fishermen off the coast of Russia’s Far East appear to have increased this year, a Maritime Rescue Coordination Center official in Vladivostok said Monday.
Six North Koreans were rescued on October 4 from two separate submerged fishing vessels off the coast of Nakhodka following a storm days earlier, the official, Nikolay Pirozhkov, told Russia's state-run TASS new agency.
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