SEOUL: A small wooden boat carrying a group of North Koreans has crossed into South Korean waters, Seoul's military said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a rare defection across the maritime border.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the boat and its crew were "presumed to have defected" from the isolated, nuclear-armed North.

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