According to the government in Seoul, North Korea regrets having shot a South Korean reported missing. North Korea said it had killed the man as part of the measures taken to combat the corona virus, the South Korean National Security Advisor said today. In a letter to South Korea’s President Moon Jae In, North Korean President Kim Jong Un wrote that the incident should not have happened.
The South Korean military announced yesterday that North Korean soldiers had shot an employee of the South Korean fisheries authorities who had been missing for a few days. They would have burned his body – presumably to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.
There are indications that the man wanted to overflow to the north after he disappeared from a fishing boat near the controversial border between the two states on Monday.
