KATHMANDU: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has apologized for killing a South Korean official, BBC reported. Kim reportedly told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in that the incident shouldn't have happened.
South Korea has said the 47-year-old man was allegedly trying to defect to country when he was found by troops floating within the North’s waters. He was then shot dead and his body was set alight, keep with Seoul.
The border between the Koreas is tightly policed, and thus the North is believed to have a “shoot-to-kill” policy in place to prevent coronavirus from entering the country. The apology came within the kind of a letter sent to President Moon and acknowledged that the incident shouldn't have happened, per South Korea’s Blue House.
Kim said he felt “very sorry” for “disappointing” Moon and thus the South Korean people, the Blue House said.
