Unification Minister Chung Dong-yong speaks to ministry workers, Jan. 2. Yonhap
South Korea will take motion equivalent to the outcomes of its ongoing investigation into drone incursions alleged by North Korea, the unification minister mentioned Wednesday.
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young made the remarks at a coverage briefing by companies affiliated with the ministry, a day after Kim Yo-jong, the highly effective sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong-un, once more demanded that Seoul apologize for violating the North’s sovereignty.
On Saturday, North Korea’s navy accused Seoul of sending drones carrying surveillance tools throughout the border in September and on Jan. 4, claiming the nation’s sovereignty had been violated.
South Korea instantly launched an investigation into the allegations, together with the likelihood that civilians might have been behind the claimed drone incursions, whereas saying the South’s navy has not despatched the drones or operated the fashions discovered within the North.
“The military-police fact-finding staff is presently working swiftly. As quickly because the outcomes are launched, (the federal government) will take corresponding motion,” Chung mentioned.
The minister additionally described the current supply of the North’s back-to-back messages associated to the drone allegations by way of the media, somewhat than inter-Korean communication channels, as “extraordinarily unnatural and irregular,” and known as for the restoration of dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang.
“I hope the severed inter-Korean contact networks and channels might be restored on the earliest date potential and dialogue may be resumed,” Chung famous.
He additionally signaled that Seoul might concern an apology for drones South Korea despatched to North Korea in 2024 below the previous Yoon Suk Yeol administration, pending a associated court docket ruling.
Former President Yoon is presently standing trial on expenses of benefiting the enemy over the alleged dispatch of navy drones to Pyongyang in 2024, allegedly supposed to impress the North and use any potential retaliation as a pretext for declaring martial regulation.
“After the reality is totally revealed, our authorities will take corresponding motion, because the North Korean chief beforehand expressed … an apology and remorse for the capturing of a (South Korean) authorities worker to demise within the Yellow Sea in 2020,” he famous.
