18 February 2017

News Story: Russia convicts two DPRK fishermen for attacking border guards

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two fishermen from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) were sentenced to 2 years and 6 months imprisonment in a penal colony for attacking Russian border guards in October last year, a local judiciary authority said Friday.

According to a message released by the Far Eastern Transport Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Russian border guards on Oct. 15, 2016 detained a DPRK fishing vessel in Russia's exclusive economic zone in Primorsky Kray.

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