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Article: South Korea Plans to Send Back Rescued DPRK Navy Diver
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 23, 1996
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The South Korean Defense Ministry plans to repatriate Chung
Kwang-son, a navy diver of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK), who was rescued early this morning while drifting in the
Yellow Sea.
The repatriation will be made on humanitarian grounds through the
Military Armistice Commission at the truce village of Panmunjom in
the near future, the ministry said in a statement issued this
afternoon.
The DPRK has withdrawn its representatives from the liaison
office
at Panmunjom and suspended their business as ...