South Korea expelled two North Korean seafarers, killing 16 people on a fishing boat November 7, 20:47
South Korea announced that two North Korean seafarers detained on the Sea of Japan are believed to have killed 16 people in a fishing boat and expelled them to North Korea.
South Korea ’s Unification Ministry sent two sailors in their 20s who were on a North Korean ship captured on the Sea of Japan on the 2nd of this month through Panmunjeom (Panmun store) on the north-south military border on the afternoon of July 7. Announced that it was expelled to North Korea.
These two people were thought to have escaped after killing 16 crew members on a squid fishing fishing boat operating in the Sea of Japan. On the 6th, there was a reply that it was taken from the North Korean side.
This is the first time South Korea has expelled North Korean residents, and the Unification Ministry said, “It is a serious crime and a threat to the life and security of the Korean people. I decided I could n’t accept it. ”
According to officials from the Ministry of Unification, the crime was carried out at the end of last month, the two confirmed the crime, and the killing seems to involve another person who had already got off the ship in North Korea. is.
A Korean intelligence agency explained that the fishing boats had been operating in North Korea and around Russia since August, and three of them were frustrated with the captain.
It means that a criminal or hammer was used for the crime, but the evidence was destroyed and no body was left on the ship.