Seoul: North Korea fired at a S. Korean and burned his body

24/9/2020 10:55

        South Korea on Thursday accused North Korea of firing at a South Korean government official and burning his body and urged the North to punish those responsible.
        
        The man was a government official who disappeared Monday from a South Korean ship that was checking on potential unauthorized fishing near the inter-Korean sea boundary where several inter-Korean naval skirmishes and deadly attacks blamed on North Korea have occurred.
        
        The South Korean Defense Ministry said the missing official was on North Korean shores on Tuesday afternoon. But it's still unclear how he ended up in the North, and the updated information the ministry released Thursday did not say how he died.
        
        The man's disappearance and death, however, are expected to deepen already-strained ties between the rivals.