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Kim Jong Un ‘very sorry’ over killing of South Korean, Seoul says

By AFP
25 September 2020   |   2:07 pm
A South Korean official reads out a rare apology from Kim Jong Un over what the North's leader described as the "unexpected and disgraceful" killing of a South Korean at sea. A fisheries official was shot dead on Tuesday by North Korean soldiers, and Seoul says his body was set on fire while still in the water, apparently as a precaution against coronavirus infection.

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