Should North Korean Defectors that Murdered 16 People Have Been Allowed to Stay in South Korea?
I kind of agree with the Moon administration on this one, these two defectors admitted to murdering 16 people and this is not the type of people South Koreans should want in their country:
The office of President Yoon Suk-yeol immediately struck back at former Foreign Minister and National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong on Sunday after he defended the previous administration’s 2019 repatriation of two North Korean fishermen against their will.
Chung said earlier Sunday the then government of President Moon Jae-in determined the North Koreans’ expression of a desire to defect as insincere and decided to deport them, as they had confessed to killing 16 fellow crew members.
Chung also said the North Koreans “were rare, grotesque killers.”
“Some claim that we had to accept them into our society as defectors in accordance with our Constitution,” he said in a statement. “However, our domestic law stipulates that nonpolitical criminals, like them, should be deported without being allowed into the country. Nonpolitical serious criminals are also not considered refugees under international law.”
Just hours later, Choi Young-bum, senior presidential secretary for press affairs, hit back at Chung.
“What officials of the previous administration and the opposition party should do is not to engage in a political offensive, but to cooperate faithfully with the investigation,” Choi said.
Choi also criticized Chung for portraying the North Koreans as “grotesque killers,” accusing him of making such a characterization without a proper investigation of them.
Yonhap
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Commie moon regime sacrificed two men to try to invite Fatty III to Busan.
What’s the problem?
They didn’t kill people.
They killed communists.
CH has made a good point.
The Korean War is ongoing … there’s still no peace treaty.
The fisherman who killed 16 of their fellow crewman are “freedom fighters.”
Almost certainly executed upon return to North Korea for: “treason to King Kim III.”
It’s a dilemma for Kim III though. If Kim III runs a publicity campaign on “this is what happens to traitors” … some North Koreans will be thinking:
“Is North Korea really that bad that you would kill 16 of your North Korean comrades to escape to the decadent South?”
I wonder, Stephen… The defection and return might not be mentioned as such. Perhaps just that “Two murderers who killed for money were executed”…
Or maybe that “Two murderous traitors working for the USA and their puppets in South Korea. Search still on for their accomplices. Citizens are required to denounce any suspicious behavior.”
Setnaffa, yes there will either be a “cover story” or no story at all.
Pair of running dogs of American imperialism executed.
You don’t throw away guys like this.
You give them a speed boat and some rifles with the serial numbers filed off.
Let them kill as many North Korean fishermen as they want.
Waste not, want not.