China News Service, Seoul, September 25 (Reporter Zeng Nai) According to news from the Blue House of the Presidential Palace of South Korea on the 25th, the DPRK sent a notice to the South Korean side and apologized to the South Korean side for shooting the South Korean citizen.

　　Recently, a South Korean citizen was shot and killed by the DPRK while he was suspected of abandoning South Korea to join the DPRK.

This is the first time that a South Korean citizen was shot and killed by North Korean soldiers in a military restricted zone near Mount Kumgang in 2008.

South Korea’s Blue House, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of Unification issued statements strongly condemning this.

　　South Korea’s Blue House National Security Office, Xu Xun, said at a press conference on the 25th that the DPRK had sent an official notice to South Korea, saying that it apologized for the disappointing incident.

　　According to news from the Blue House, the DPRK announced the results of the investigation, saying that at the time of the incident, the DPRK requested the person to confirm his identity, but the person only vaguely stated that he was from South Korea, and did not answer thereafter.

Later, North Korea fired several empty bombs, but the person "seems to have escaped." Afterwards, the North Korean soldiers fired at the "intruder" in accordance with safety regulations and set fire to the "floating objects" he was riding instead of "burning" in accordance with the epidemic prevention regulations. Corpse".

　　The North Korean side stated that "this is something that shouldn't have happened" and will take measures to prevent such accidents from happening again; it apologizes for the occurrence of such things that are obviously not conducive to improving relations between North and South Korea.

　　The North Korean side also stated that it regretted that South Korea unilaterally used words such as "barbaric acts" before asking it to explain measures to deal with illegal intruders.

　　The Blue House stated that South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean State Council Chairman Kim Jong-un also exchanged personal letters recently.

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