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Two years ago, the family of a public official who was shot and killed by the North Korean military was investigated by the prosecution as the accuser.

The family claimed that at the time of the incident, some Democrats conciliated as if they would compensate them if they admitted that they had crossed the north on their own.



First of all, this is reporter Ahn Hee-jae.



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On September 29, 2020, a week after the assassination.



Four people, including a member of the Democratic Party, visited the Ansan office of the bereaved family member Rae-jin after a foreign press conference.



It was a place to comfort the bereaved family who lost their family to the North Korean military, and Lee claimed that Democratic lawmakers tried to convince them by reminding them that Wando, Jeollanam-do was their hometown.



[Lee Rae-jin / Bereaved family of a deceased public official: (Rep. Kim Cheol-min) said that Honam is not on the same side, admit North Korea, and then compensate him, and (Rep. Hwang-hee) raise a fund for his young nephews…

.]



He said that he thought of the young nephews who lost their father, and that he would compensate them if he acknowledged the North Korean defection.



Rep. Hwang-hee and Kim Cheol-min, who were designated as parties to the conciliation, denied that they were not conciliatory, only discussing ways to help the bereaved.



[Hwang Hee / In addition, Democratic Party lawmaker: Is it possible to become such a symbolic existence that does not repeat unfortunate events?

who did...

.]



The bereaved family burst into anger saying that they drove them to North Korea with only fragmentary North Korean military recordings.





[Kwon Young-mi/Dead civil servant wife: A 10-year-old child sees and hears why he misunderstands his father as a North Korean defector, and falls asleep after crying for an hour about whether he would

spare my father.]

revealed.



President Yoon said he was ashamed and sorry that the country inflicted an indelible wound even though efforts to uncover the truth have made progress.



After completing regular personnel appointments, the prosecution is expected to start a full-scale investigation, starting with the investigation of the accuser of the bereaved family.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, Video editing: Won-hee Won, Screen source: Rep. Kim Cheol-min's Facebook)



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