The rare data from the ministry in charge of inter-Korea affairs emerged after prosecutors reopened an investigation into the fishermen’s case
Seoul — South Korea has repatriated nearly 200 North Koreans who came to the South via the sea border since 2010, but two fishermen sent back in 2019 were deported against their will, data from Seoul’s Unification Ministry showed on Friday.
It showed that a total of 276 North Koreans had arrived in the South on 67 occasions since 2010, whether they went adrift at sea or were detained after violating the border. Of them, 194 returned home while 82 defected to the South, and only the two fishermen were listed as “expelled.” Officials who served under Moon said the fishermen did not deserve South Korean protection and resettlement support, calling them “grotesque criminals” who had killed 16 other crewmen in a fight aboard a ship before crossing the border.
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