Human rights groups said the two men were likely executed upon return to North Korea.
Current President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration this week released photos of the blindfolded and bound fishermen getting dragged across the border. His office issued a statement saying their return to face charges of murdering their fellow crewman on a fishing boat was"a crime against humanity that violated both international law and the constitution”.
The Moon administration has said the two fishermen were sent back after they confessed to murdering 16 on board the fishing boat and had no intention to defect. Critics contended at the time that Moon’s government cut the probe into the matter short and sent the men back to keep in the good graces of North Korea as it was engaging in talks with former US president Donald Trump.
South Korea’s spy agency last week said it filed a complaint with prosecutors against its two former chiefs under Moon, claiming one of them preemptively ended an inquiry of the fishermen’s case and the other deleted a report on a separate incident where a South Korean fisheries official was killed by North Korean troops near a nautical border.
The repatriation faced criticism in South Korea, where the constitution defines those living in the North as its citizens and deserving of a trial in South Korea.
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