BBC: Kim Jong-un apologises for killing of South Korean official - South
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has issued a rare personal apology for the killing of a South Korean official, Seoul says.
Mr Kim reportedly told South Korean leader Moon Jae-in that the "disgraceful affair" should not have happened.
South Korea has said the 47-year-old man was found by troops floating in the North's waters.
He was then shot dead and his body was set alight, according to Seoul.
It is not known what the man was doing there. The South Korean government has said he may have been trying to defect to the North but his family has denied this.
The killing - the first of a South Korean citizen by North Korean forces for a decade - has caused outrage in the South.
The border between the Koreas is tightly policed, and the North is thought to have a "shoot-to-kill" policy in place to prevent coronavirus from entering the country.
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Update #1: Kim Jong Un apologizes in letter to Seoul for shooting of South Korean official (CNN)
Update #2: Kim Jong-un says sorry: Rare apology after South Korean is shot dead at sea and his body 'burned by the North's troops' as he tried to defect to the communist state (Daily Mail)
WNU Editor: I did not expect this "apology" from Kim Jong-un. This tells me that the North Korean leader does not want to close all of his doors with South Korea.
3 comments:
Surprised as well. This guy was not right in his mind to defect to the north and on top was wearing a gas mask, triggering all kinds of red light alert when troops found him, during an ongoing pandemic and with shoot to kill orders. My guess is that Kim doesn't want to discourage others from trying lol like it's so rare to happen that someone tries to defect to the north and then they shoot the poor guy
He clearly must have been out of his mind... RIP
The guy is likely to be alive and well in North Korea, since no evidence or body was found and only vague mentions from South Korea about 'distant' sighting. And then a mention that he was likely interrogated on the border.
So the apology may not be that sincere at all.
Hmmm. The details mentioned here are not clearing the air.
I too find Jong-un's apology puzzling.
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