Four North Koreans who arrived by boat at a Japanese port two weeks ago left Japan on Saturday for South Korea, their desired destination, police said.Three men and a woman taken into custody in northern Japan on June 2, believed to be a couple and their two adult sons, arrived in a small wooden boat after a sea journey they said had begun on May 27.
The four said they wished to go to South Korea, and Japanese officials had said they would be treated sympathetically. (Full story)
A police spokesman at Narita airport, just east of Tokyo, said the four had departed on Saturday morning for South Korea.
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