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ruling and opposition parties fought yesterday (20th) over the case of repatriating North Korean defectors to North Korea.
They argued that the power of the people is the testimony of a North Korean defector and that the killing of 16 North Korean fishermen was a lie.
This is reporter Kang Min-woo.
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North Korean defectors appeared at the People's Power Security Disturbance TF meeting.
They questioned the Moon Jae-in government's announcement that two North Korean fishermen repatriated to North Korea in 2019 killed 16 people.
The two fishermen repatriated to North Korea were actually defector brokers, and there was also an argument that 16 people from 5 households who were trying to escape from North Korea in Kimchaek city were taken on board a boat and they were arrested by the National Security Agency and went south with a hint.
[Han Ki-ho / People's Power National Security Disturbance Investigation TF Chairman: The fact that he killed 16 people is that North Korea lied to get these two defector brokers back...
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As for the basis of this claim, it was said that "a North Korean defector heard over the phone from a resident of Kimchaek, North Korea."
The Democrats reacted absurdly.
[Woo Sang-ho / Democratic Party Emergency Response Committee Chairman: I'm ridiculous.
I wish I had a little more reason to talk.
Does it make sense to drive the north wind while denying even the objective facts?] The
members of the West Sea TF of the Democratic Party directly confessed to the killing of two fishermen and refuted that it was consistent with the ROK-U.S. joint intelligence assets.
During a protest visit to the Ministry of Unification, Minister Kwon Young-se also said that he had admitted to killing 16 people, but Minister Kwon immediately denied it.
Rep. Yoon Geon-young, who served as the head of the Blue House National Affairs Office, told SBS reporters that if they were confident, the Yoon Seok-yeol government should publish the joint interrogation report of two fishermen at the time.