SEOUL: North Korea played a diplomatic double game yesterday, allowing South Korean coast guards to keep up a rescue mission in its waters on one side of the peninsula while accusing Seoul's navy of stoking tensions on the other.
A South Korean cargo vessel with 18 crew on board sank in bad weather conditions on Thursday in North Korean waters off the east coast of the divided peninsula. Pyongyang quickly gave the go-ahead for the South Korean coast guard to conduct a search and rescue operation.
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