A North Korean spy ship that sank in the East China Sea in 2001 may also have ferried agents to and from Japan, officials of a joint police-coast guard team analyzing the salvaged ship said Friday.
The officials said they had discovered a map of the southeastern coast of Kagoshima Prefecture’s Satsuma Peninsula inside the retrieved vessel.
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