“The Korean side has not yet given us any clear-cut explanations for the incident, but they have promised to provide them shortly. The embassy wants to know why the yacht was detained and demands its immediate release,” Denis Samsonov told RIA by telephone from Pyongyang.
He added that pertinent requests had earlier been sent to the North Korean Foreign and Defense Ministries.
“The crew is alive and well. We are still expecting the reasons for the detention from North Korea," Igor Agafonov, the acting representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Vladivostok, told RIA.
The yacht was on the way from the South Korean port of Pusan to Vladivostok when it was detained by a North Korean coastguard boat in the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is looking into the incident.
