Japan Rescues All North Korean Fishermen After Collision

Japan Rescues All North Korean Fishermen After Collision
An official of the Japanese Fisheries Agency speaks to media following a collision between its patrol boat and a North Korean fishing boat, in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Mizuki Ikari/Kyodo News via AP
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TOKYO—Japanese authorities said they rescued all of about 60 North Korean fishermen whose boat collided with a Japanese patrol vessel and sank on Oct. 7 in an area crowded with poachers.

Coast guard officials earlier said that about 20 North Korean crew members were thrown into the sea after their steel boat collided with a Japanese Fisheries Agency inspection boat in Japan’s exclusive economic zone off the country’s northern coast.