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“The chairman of the North Korean State Council, Kim Jong-un, is also taking this incident seriously and seriously, and we can confirm his wishes that inter-Korean relations not be broken.”
President Moon Jae-in evaluated President Kim’s “I’m so sorry” apology contained in a notice sent by North Korea on the 25th at a senior advisers meeting chaired at the Blue House on the 28th. Not to mention that Korea Norte claimed that the murder of Mr. Lee Mo (47), a fisheries instructor belonging to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, was “followed by a fair procedure”, gave meaning to President Kim’s apology and emphasized the need to resume the inter-Korean dialogue. This is the first time President Moon has spoken about this case in public. It was only six days after the murder incident on the 22nd, and 125 hours and 30 minutes after Moon’s first face-to-face report was received on the 23rd.
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President Moon said at the meeting that “it shouldn’t happen, no matter how divided I am,” saying, “I would like to express my deepest condolences and condolences for the grief and pain of the grieving family, regardless of how the victim went to the waters of North Korea. ” It took off. He was expressing comfort to the grieving relatives of the North Korean workshop that surrounded Lee. He continued, “The shock and anger that people have received was also guessed and left. Regardless of the reason, he sent his first message of apology, saying: “As a government you must protect the safety of the person and the people,” he said.
However, President Moon soon devoted a significant part of the message to assessing North Korea’s apology and demand for the restoration of inter-Korean relations. In particular, because North Korea sent a notice on the 25th containing President Kim’s apology, President Moon praised him with expressions such as “extraordinary significance” and “very unusual for the first time in history.”
President Moon said: “The North Korean authorities were quick to apologize and promised to prevent a recurrence by sending a notice one day after the Korean government requested responses and responsible action.” “It is assessed as a clear expression of North Korea’s unwillingness to do so.” In addition, he said, “I especially take it with special meaning because of the fact that President Kim Jong-un has conveyed the meaning of being very sorry to our people.” Amid the controversy over President Kim’s apology, President Moon also went a step beyond the outcome of the previous day’s emergency security ministers meeting: “I positively appreciate the North’s prompt apology and promise to prevent it from returning occur”. Blue House spokesman Kang Min-seok said in a briefing written that day, “Foreign media reported that ‘it is extremely unusual for a North Korean leader to apologize to the South on a specific issue,’ and a spokesman for the The US State Department assessed it as ‘a useful measure.’ He said.
● “Expected reversal due to progress in inter-Korean relations”
President Moon said, “I hope that this tragic incident will not end as just an incident, but become an opportunity for dialogue and cooperation, and to promote inter-Korean relations.” He made it clear that he would use it as an opportunity to reestablish inter-Korean relations through joint investigations proposed the previous day and the restoration of military communication lines. President Moon said, “Looking back, the long history of division has been a record of numerous sacrifices. I hope that by solving this case, we can ignite the spark of dialogue and open the waters of cooperation.” It means going down a path of cooperation rather than confrontation through the ‘sacrifice’ of an official killed in North Korea.
In particular, President Moon expressed his willingness to continue with the declaration of the end of the Korean peninsula, which he emphasized in his speech at the UN General Assembly, saying: “The history of repetitive confrontation must end now.” A Blue House official said: “The position of establishing a peace regime on the Korean peninsula remains unchanged.”
However, it is noted that President Moon’s first public comment on this incident focused on improving inter-Korean relations without condemning North Korea’s atrocities. A ruling party official said: “It is true that the message of apology comes too late.”
Reporter Park Hyo-mok [email protected]
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