[Editorial] Thorough probe required Photos belie announcement that NK fishers did not want to defect
Jul 15, 2022
The photos of the repatriation of two North Korean fishers, released by the Unification Ministry, are shocking. The pictures taken by a ministry official at the truce village of Panmunjom on Nov. 7, 2019, show the North Koreans clearly refusing to return to their country. One of them strongly resisted being dragged across to the North side of the military demarcation line, with his feet against the concrete block marking the line and his waist bent backward. Apparently, in the course of resis