The government is expected to send home a North Korean fisherman who was rescued in South Korean waters.
 
The ministry sent a message to the North on Monday via the liaison channel at the truce village of Panmunjom to notify the regime of the plan to return the fisherman and his vessel at 10 a.m. Tuesday through the Northern Limit Line in the East Sea.
 
The South's coast guard rescued the North Korean citizen on Friday afternoon when his 72-ton trawler drifted near Dokdo islets in the East Sea.
 
The ministry said that the fishing boat had gone adrift from Dancheon Port in South Hamkyong Province after the anchor rope that held the vessel snapped and the fisherman, in his 20s, expressed his wish to return home.