The Presidential Office of South Korea: Will continue to investigate the shooting incident of South Korean citizens killed in North Korean waters
Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, September 26 (Reporter Lu Rui, Geng Xuepeng) South Korea’s Presidential Palace Blue House said on the 26th that South Korea will continue to investigate the incident in which South Korean citizens were shot and killed in North Korea’s waters. At the same time, they asked North Korea to step up investigations into the incident.
The Blue House announced to the media on the same day that the Standing Committee of the South Korean National Security Conference held a meeting on the evening of the 25th.
It was decided at the meeting that due to the discrepancies between the incident described in the North Korean notification and the intelligence held by the South Korean side, South Korea will continue to investigate the incident and invite the North Korean side to conduct joint investigations if necessary.
The meeting also requested the DPRK to increase its investigation.
The meeting decided that in order to prevent such incidents from happening again, South Korea will take measures as soon as possible to strengthen surveillance and vigilance in the western waters of the Korean Peninsula.
The South Korean Army’s Joint Staff Headquarters said on the 24th that a South Korean fishery instructor who disappeared while performing official duties near Xiaoyanping Island in the western waters of the Korean peninsula had been shot dead by the North Korean military.
The Blue House then asked the DPRK to disclose the truth and severely punish those responsible.
The Blue House said on the 25th that the South Korean side received a notification from North Korea about the incident. In the notification, the North Korean side explained that the South Korean was shot and killed, and at the same time conveyed North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s apology for the incident.