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Authorities in South Korea arrested an ex-defence minister and a former coast guard chief Saturday on suspicion of covering up events surrounding the 2020 murder of a fisheries official by Pyongyang.
South Korea’s former defense minister and coast guard chief were arrested Saturday over their alleged involvement in covering up facts and distorting the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020 near the rivals’ tense sea border. The arrests came as the government of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol expands…
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Former Defense Minister Suh Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner General Kim Hong-hee attended court hearings held Friday to determine whether they should be arrested over the previous administration's mishandling of the 2020 death of a fisheries official at the hands of North Korea.
Prosecutors sought arrest warrants Tuesday for former Defense Minister Suh Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner General Kim Hong-hee over the previous administration's alleged mishandling of the killing of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in September 2020. Suh and Kim face diverse charges, such as abuse of power, dereliction of duty and fabrication of official documents apparently to extract a false conclusion that the official, Lee Dae-jun, was shot to death in the West Sea while attempting to defect to the North.