Trial over alleged cover-up of fisheries official's death

Park Jie-won, former head of the National Intelligence Service, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on March 24, 2023, to attend the first hearing of a trial over his alleged involvement in the then Moon Jae-in government's conclusion without sufficient evidence that a South Korean fisheries official was killed while attempting to defect to North Korea. The official was shot to death by North Korean soldiers while drifting in the North's territorial waters in the West Sea in September 2020. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

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