By It seems like defecting across the West Sea maritime border seems to be becoming a more popular means of defecting from North Korea:
A group of 21 North Koreans was found drifting aboard a boat off South Korea’s west coast earlier this week, officials said Saturday, the latest in a string of defections by North Koreans.
The boat carrying the North Korean family members, including children, was spotted by sailors on a South Korean Navy vessel in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The North Koreans expressed their wish to defect to officers from the Korea Coast Guard, and were led to a nearby dock in Incheon, west of Seoul, for questioning by South Korean officials. [Korea Herald]
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Humanitarian aid for the North? In a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik said he’d think about it. But don’t worry. Professor Yang Moo-jin at the University of North Korean Studies says the Lee Myung-bak government is just trying to appease international critics, and is not sincerely trying to improve relations with Pyongyang. Lee Jiyeon has the scoop at CNN.