“We have given President Moon and our compatriots in the South a great disappointment with this unseen misfortune.'
, and he was shot dead after reportedly refusing to give his name, although South Korea claims the man was trying to defect to North Korea.
South Korea says the North Korean military then poured oil on the man’s body and set it ablaze due to coronavirus concerns, but North Koreathis, saying the object he was floating on was burned after just a pool of blood remained of the man after he was shot. “We have given President Moon and our compatriots in the South a great disappointment with this unseen misfortune,” Kim wrote in his letter to South Korean President Moon Jai-in, according to a translation byKim’s message, released by South Korea’s Blue House, comes after the man’s killing drew outrage in South Korea, with Moon and his government calling it “stunning” and “atrocious.
North Korea’s state-run media hasn’t reported Kim’s message as of Friday evening Pyongyang time, according to the"Kim Jong Un's supposed apology reduces the risk of escalation between the two Koreas and keeps the Moon government's hopes for engagement alive," Leif-Eric Easley, an international studies professor at Seoul’s Ewha University,
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