SEOUL: Southern Korea’s presidential workplace denounced on Wed (Jul 13) the particular repatriation of two Northern Korean fishermen within 2019 as a potential “crime against humanity” by the previous government.
The comments came after Seoul’s Unification Ministry, which grips relations with the North, released photographs from the two men, who were suspected of eliminating 16 shipmates, becoming forcibly dragged over the border between the nearby neighbours.
“If they were forcibly repatriated towards the North even when these people expressed their can to defect, it’s a crime against mankind that violated each international law and the constitution, ” Kang In-sun, spokeswoman meant for President Yoon Suk-yeol, told reporters.
She vowed that Yoon’s administration might uncover the truth behind the decision, as South Korean prosecutors have got re-opened an investigation into the case .
At the time of the deportation, the federal government of then president Moon Jae-in the fishermen “dangerous criminals” who had killed colleagues in a combat over an violent captain on their deliver before crossing the ocean border.
Celestial satellite has not commented over the renewed allegations, yet his Democratic Party defended the move as being legal and in the national curiosity.
“Moon’s federal government put the life plus safety of the people first, which was the basic responsibility of the country at the time, ” party members said in the statement on Wed.