21 N. Korean boat people arrive in South

21 N. Korean boat people arrive in South

SEOUL, South Korea - Twenty-one North Korean asylum seekers, including two girls aged 4 and 8, seven teenagers, and a 70-year-old man, wave after they arrived at the port of Inchon, South Korea, on Aug. 19. They were spotted in a 20-ton fishing boat in the Yellow Sea off Inchon on Aug. 18.

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