BEIJING: North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat on Tuesday, the Chinese state media said, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage fuelled strains between the neighbors.

“All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back,” China’s Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese Embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the shipowner.

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