South Korea on Wednesday returned 10 North Korean fishermen rescued from their boat drifting in the South's eastern waters, the unification ministry said.
The South handed over the vessel and the fishermen to the North at around 1:30 a.m. through the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the East Sea.
It had an engine glitch and was found near the uninhabited islets of Dokdo on Sunday night.
All of them expressed their desire to go back to the North, the ministry said.
Despite military tensions, the two Koreas have the practice of repatriating civilians who accidentally land in each other's territory in a humanitarian move. (Yonhap)