South Korea’s former spy chief ordered arrested over sea border killing

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Suh Hoon ordered details of the killing of a fisheries official by North Korean soldiers deleted, prosecutors say. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL – A South Korean court approved the arrest of a former security chief accused of covering up the death of a fisheries official by North Korean soldiers near a nautical border, the news agency Yonhap has reported.

It cited the court as saying there is a possibility Suh would destroy evidence based on the gravity of the allegations, his social status and relations with those involved.in what was the first killing of a South Korean civilian by North Korea’s military in about a decade. The authorities under former president Moon Jae-in’s administration said he may have tried to defect but was treated harshly by the North Koreans because they believed he could have been a carrier of the coronavirus.

 

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