This file photograph, supplied by Kyodo Information, reveals a market in Hyesan, North Korea, Sept. 5, 2020. Yonhap
Humanitarian elements must be thought of in dealing with authorized points involving remittances despatched by North Korean defectors to their households again house, the unification ministry stated Tuesday.
“Each authorized and humanitarian elements must be thought of in a balanced means,” a unification ministry official informed reporters after a Seoul courtroom was reported to have just lately delivered a not-guilty sentence to an individual accused of brokering remittances despatched by North Korean defectors to their households again within the North.
The defendant was amongst many North Korean defectors charged with violating the International Change Transactions Act for involvement in remittances to North Korea underneath former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s authorities.
Earlier than the conservative authorities, remittances by North Korean defectors to their households again within the North had largely been tolerated so long as no security-related points have been suspected.
“Cash despatched by defectors to their households in North Korea typically quantities to nothing greater than residing bills. Below the present scenario, the place there is no such thing as a regulation regulating this, some (defectors) had been indicted underneath the International Change Transactions Act,” the official defined.
The official’s remarks sign President Lee Jae Myung’s administration is probably going returning to the extra relaxed means of dealing with defectors’ remittances to North Korea.
