South Korean Navy rescues two N Korean soldiers
South Korea’s navy rescued a pair of North Korean soldiers from a small boat off the eastern Korean coast this weekend, but it was unclear if they had been planning to defect, a Defence Ministry official said today.
The three-ton wooden boat was found drifting off South Korea’s eastern port of Sokcho, near the maritime border with communist North Korea, on Saturday night and the two soldiers were taken to a hospital, the official said, asking not to be identified as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
