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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, he apologized after his army shot a South Korean official along the maritime border between the two countriesthe southern presidential office reported Friday.
Pyonyang sent a formal notification saying that Kim is “very sorry” for “disappointing” South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and other South Koreans in relation to this event, he said at a press conference Suh hoon, director of national security for the presidential office.
In the note, the regime also informs Seoul about its investigation of the case and in that sense ensures that the troops, as indicated in their action protocol, fired ten warning shots when they detected the illegal presence of the man in North Korean watersSuh explained.
The text further assures that the northern soldiers burned the “floating material” that the man clung to when he was drifting and not his corpse, as Seoul has said.
Suh said in turn that, despite the bad moment that relations between the two Koreas are experiencing, recently Moon and Kim exchanged correspondence, although he did not detail the content of the messages.
The 47-year-old South Korean official identified only as “A”, disappeared last Monday, while working on a Ministry of Fisheries vessel along the tense western maritime border, in the Yellow Sea (called the “East Sea” in both Koreas).
According to the southern army, its surveillance systems captured how a North Korean maritime patrol found the man floating adrift in its territorial waters the next day.
The man was reportedly left in the water and the soldiers, covered with gas masks, interrogated him from the deck.
Hours later they shot him and burned his body, after spraying it with fuel, according to Seoul yesterday – which believes that the procedure responded to the anti-Covid measures that North Korea is implementing – when it first reported what happened.
Today, members of the South Korean Parliamentary Defense Committee explained to different local media that, Apparently, the initial intention of the North Korean troops was to rescue the man by towing him with a cable.
The parliamentarians explained that the intelligence they have had access to shows that the cable broke and that the ship then lost sight of the official for a couple of hours.
They detailed that when the patrol found him again, the orders apparently changed and that was when the soldiers chose to shoot him.
