▲ Fishing guidance ship Mugunghwa No. 10 on board of a missing civil servant anchored in Yeonpyeong Island
The North Korean Human Rights Commission (HRNK), a non-governmental organization in the United States, issued a statement on the 24th (local time) condemning the incident in which North Korea killed South Korean officials and burned their bodies on the north side of the West Sea.
In a statement that day, HRNK accused of "no country has cruelly taken an innocent life and burned a body to prevent coronavirus infection-19."
HRNK emphasized that "North Korean human rights are not just an issue of North Koreans. It is an issue that affects those living in the North and South. This is also an international issue. Without human rights, there is no peace."
According to military authorities, a 47-year-old man, a fishery guidance officer of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, was found on a North Korean ship in the west sea on the 22nd, one day after the report of disappearance, and the North Korean military burned his body after the killing.
(Photo = Yonhap News)