{"id":269911,"date":"2020-09-26T05:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269911"},"modified":"2020-09-26T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T09:14:24","slug":"kim-jong-un-apologizes-for-killing-s-korean-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/26\/kim-jong-un-apologizes-for-killing-s-korean-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un apologizes for killing S. Korean official"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_269912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269912\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_1385497739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269912\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_1385497739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_1385497739.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_1385497739-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_1385497739-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a formal notice to South Korea, Kim said he felt \u201cvery sorry\u201d for \u201cdisappointing\u201d President Moon Jae-in and other South Koreans in connection with the incident, state-run Yonhap News Agency reported. (FIle Photo: Alexander Khitrov \/ Shutterstock.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has apologized to South Korea over the killing of an official who went missing in a border region, local media reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a formal notice to South Korea, Kim said he felt \u201cvery sorry\u201d for \u201cdisappointing\u201d President Moon Jae-in and other South Koreans in connection with the incident, state-run Yonhap News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>A North Korean military official said on Thursday that a missing official was shot dead by North Korean soldiers and his body burned.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul said the official was affiliated with South Korea\u2019s Oceans and Fisheries Ministry who went missing from a boat in waters off the western border island of Yeonpyeong on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Suh Hoon, director of South Korean national security, said North Korea also shared the results of its probe into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North Korean troops operating near the western sea border fired more than 10 shots against the South Korean man intruding into the North&#8217;s waters,\u201d Suh said, quoting North Korea\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang added that its military did not in fact burn the body but the \u201cfloating material\u201d that carried the deceased official.<\/p>\n<p>Moon and Kim have recently exchanged personal letters, Suh added.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has apologized to South Korea over the killing of an official who went missing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":269912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269913,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269911\/revisions\/269913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}