3 N. Koreans on way home after being found drifting off Japan

3 N. Koreans on way home after being found drifting off Japan

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - A helicopter carrying three North Korean men is taxied to a hanger at a Japan Coast Guard air base in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2012, as the three make their way back to North Korea via Fukuoka and Beijing. The North Koreans were found drifting aboard a small boat with the body of a fellow crew member in the Sea of Japan off the islands of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012. (Kyodo)

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