NK weekly-inter-Korean news
Summary of inter-Korean news this week
SEOUL, July 11 (Yonhap) -- The following is a summary of inter-Korean news this week.
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Boat carrying repatriated N. Koreans safely docks at port in North: official
SEOUL -- A wooden boat carrying six North Koreans has safely docked at a North Korean port, a South Korean government official said Thursday, a day after they were repatriated across the sea border following their rescue in the South.
Boarding the wooden boat they had been rescued in by South Korean authorities, the six North Korean fisherman were sent back home the previous day across the Northern Limit Line in the East Sea.
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(LEAD) Lee calls for efforts to restore inter-Korean relations
SEOUL -- President Lee Jae Myung called for efforts Thursday to mend strained inter-Korean ties, saying peace between the two Koreas is the most realistic and practical path to ensuring national security.
Lee made the remarks while presiding over a National Security Council (NSC) meeting, the first since he took office in early June, presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung told reporters.
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(2nd LD) S. Korea repatriates 6 N. Koreans rescued at sea across eastern maritime border
SEOUL -- South Korea on Wednesday repatriated six North Koreans via the maritime border in the East Sea, months after they had drifted into southern waters and were rescued.
A wooden boat carrying them, all fishermen, crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime border, at around 8:56 a.m., according to an official at South Korea's unification ministry.
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N. Korean defector to file lawsuits in S. Korea against Kim Jong-un over human rights crimes
SEOUL -- A North Korean defector in South Korea plans to file a lawsuit and a criminal complaint against North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un over human rights violations this week, a civic group said Wednesday.
The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) said it would file the civil suit to the Seoul Central District Court and a criminal complaint to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office on Friday on behalf of Choi Min-kyung.
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(2nd LD) S. Korea to soon repatriate 6 N. Koreans rescued at sea: source
SEOUL -- The South Korean government has decided to soon repatriate six North Koreans, rescued from the southern side of the inter-Korean maritime border, via a sea route, a government source said Monday.
"President (Lee Jae Myung) has ordered a swift and safe repatriation because the matter of stranded people is a humanitarian issue," the high-ranking government official said on condition of anonymity, suggesting that the repatriation will take place in the near future.
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