An official says South Korea has repatriated three North Korean fishermen rescued from a boat drifting in South Korean waters, as AP reported. South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung says the fishermen were sent back to the North at the border village of Panmunjom on Friday. He says the three North Koreans were rescued by a South Korean navy vessel near the disputed western sea border with North Korea on Dec. 3. He says they told South Korean investigators they wanted to go back to their homeland. South Korea has handed over North Koreans rescued at sea who wanted to go home. The Korean peninsula is still technically at war because their three-year conflict in the 1950s ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
