Yes-men to KJI
If you were North Korea and you have 22 North Koreans in the other Korea late for their execution, what would you do? Just ask
North Korea requested the repatriation of 22 North Koreans whose boats drifted into South Korean waters in the West Sea on Feb. 8, a South Korean government official admitted Monday. The government has been under pressure to explain why it turned the 22 back to the North the same day they arrived in the South, without interrogating them individually even for just a few hours.
According to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea contacted the South through the international standard radio frequency for commercial vessels around 8:20 a.m. on Feb. 8, asking the South to send back two drifting North Korean vessels. At that time, the 22 North Koreans were being transferred from their rubber boats to a South Korean ship. It was about three hours after they were first spotted at 5:10 a.m.
According to the South Korean constitution, these 22 are considered ROK citizens. Wouldn’t the choice of whether to stay in the south belong to the 22 Koreans? You can read the gruesome details of their fate in OFK post. It is becoming less of a case of negligence and more of a deliberate action to send the drifters back to the North.
