SEOUL: Southern Korea has repatriated nearly 200 North Koreans who reached the South via the sea border considering that 2010 but two fishermen sent back in 2019 were deported against their can, data from Seoul’s Unification Ministry showed on Friday (Jul 15).
The rare data from the ministry in charge of inter-Korea affairs emerged after prosecutors reopened an investigation into the fishermen’s case amid the public outcry over the previous government associated with President Moon Jae-in’s handling of the their own constitutional and human being rights.
This showed that a complete of 276 North Koreans had arrived in the South on 67 occasions since 2010, whether they went adrift at sea or were detained after violating the particular border. Of them, 194 returned home while 82 defected towards the south, and only the two anglers were listed as “expelled”.
South Korean authorities usually question all Northern Koreans detained or even found in the South about how and the reason why they crossed the border, and repatriate anyone who wishes to return.
Officials who seem to served under Celestial satellite said the fishermen did not deserve South Korean protection plus resettlement support, contacting them “grotesque criminals” who had slain 16 other crewmen in a fight up to speed a ship before crossing the boundary.
But lawful experts and human rights specialists ruined the deportation, stating the Moon administration violated the in a number of rights by sidestepping an obligation because of its justice system to deal with them.
The country’s constitution defines all North Koreans as South Korean citizens.