{"id":85963,"date":"2017-01-19T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85963"},"modified":"2017-01-19T21:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:10:18","slug":"philippine-police-chief-apologizes-to-south-korea-in-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/19\/philippine-police-chief-apologizes-to-south-korea-in-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine police chief apologizes to South Korea in killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85964\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15994993_1409783439062908_4751594678235814312_o-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85964\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15994993_1409783439062908_4751594678235814312_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa (Pictured) said the policemen detained Jee Ickjoo with a fake arrest warrant last October with the intent of holding him for ransom, but killed him the same day. He said they then extracted a ransom payment from Jee's family without telling them Jee was dead. (Photo: Philippine National Police\/ Facebook)\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15994993_1409783439062908_4751594678235814312_o-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15994993_1409783439062908_4751594678235814312_o-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15994993_1409783439062908_4751594678235814312_o-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15994993_1409783439062908_4751594678235814312_o-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa (Pictured) said the policemen detained Jee Ickjoo with a fake arrest warrant last October with the intent of holding him for ransom, but killed him the same day. He said they then extracted a ransom payment from Jee&#8217;s family without telling them Jee was dead. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\/\">Philippine National Police\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013The Philippine national police chief apologized to South Korea on Thursday over the death of a Korean man who was arrested illegally and then slain by members of an anti-drug task force at the main police camp in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Police Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa said the policemen detained Jee Ickjoo with a fake arrest warrant last October with the intent of holding him for ransom, but killed him the same day. He said they then extracted a ransom payment from Jee&#8217;s family without telling them Jee was dead.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s cremated remains have been found in a funeral parlour, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m very sorry that this crime happened and my men are involved,\u201d dela Rosa said at a news conference. \u201cI just want to melt and disappear from this world out of embarrassment for what my men did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said one of the policemen has since surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Rosa said he is regularly updating the South Korean ambassador on developments in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean officials have expressed alarm over the killing and other attacks on Koreans in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Rosa said the suspects used President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s anti-drug crackdown as a cover to carry out the kidnapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013The Philippine national police chief apologized to South Korea on Thursday over the death of a Korean man &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[13961,13962,7983,13960],"class_list":["post-85963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-death-of-a-korean-man","tag-jee-ickjoo","tag-philippine-national-police","tag-police-director-general-ronald-dela-rosa","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85963","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}