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UNC contacted N. Korea over repatriation of 2 aboard drifting boat: minister
The U.N. Command (UNC) has contacted North Korea multiple times and is waiting for a response regarding the repatriation of two North Koreans found aboard a drifting boat in the Yellow Sea last month, Seoul’s point man on Pyongyang said Wednesday.
Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho made the remark during a session of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, referring to the North Korean men taken into South Korean custody following the discovery of their boat in waters south of the de facto inter-Korean maritime border on March 7.
“The U.N. Command is waiting for North Korea’s response agreeing to the repatriation,” he said. “We are working to swiftly and safely repatriate them on humanitarian grounds.”
The UNC, which oversees the cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, appears to have contacted the North as all communication channels between the Koreas are currently severed.
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