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Today (25th) North Korea sent a notice to us about the incident in which North Korean soldiers shot and killed our missing civil servant.
They claimed to have been killed by the military for illegally trespassing their territorial waters.
At the same time, Chairman Kim Jong-un expressed his apology, saying he felt very sorry for the fact that he gave a great disappointment to the South Koreans over the unexpected and unsavory things.
First, reporter Minjung Kim will deliver the details of the notice.
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Blue House released the full text saying that North Korea sent a'notice' to our side this morning.
In a notice under the name of the Unification Front, North Korea stipulated the murder of Mr. Lee as "an incident in which an unidentified person who illegally invaded their territorial waters was killed."
They said, "Lee was frustrated with the request for identification, and there was a flee movement during the confrontation, so he fired from a distance of 40-50m according to the resolution and regulations of the enforcement suit.", "After shooting, we approached and searched for it, There was no blood, only blood, and the float was incinerated.”
He said he was sorry for the condemnation of our military as'barrage' because it was a one-sided speculation.
Still, their leadership said that something that shouldn't happen has occurred and that they have instructed them to put in place measures to prevent recurrence so that there are no minor mistakes or major misunderstandings in the crackdown process.
And it contains the intention of apologizing twice.
[Seohun / national security implementation (the notice aloud): These two days to no obvious fun in the North-South relationship between (you can not get a good result), action before the apologetic heart on your end about having occurred on our side water]
after "recent At the end of the notice, Kim Jong-un said at the end of the notice that the Secretary of State Kim Jong-un apologized.
[Seo Hoon/Head of the Office of National Security (Reading the notice): Comrade Kim Jong-un asked me to convey that I am very sorry that an unexpected and unfortunate event occurred in our waters, which added great disappointment to President Moon Jae-in and South Koreans. The
Blue House did not disclose the delivery route of the notice, but a key official from the National Assembly's Intelligence Committee said, "The National Intelligence Service and the Unification Front Line are operational."
(Video coverage: First Il·Shin Dong-hwan, Video editing: Jeong Seong-hun)