North Korean Soldiers Reportedly Linked to Murder to Three Chinese Citizens

Here we go again with North Korean soldiers allegedly murdering Chinese civilians:

China verified three Chinese nationals were killed on Saturday, in a region bordering North Korea, as some Chinese and South Korean media outlets reported the suspects were desperate North Korean soldiers.

The victims included a 55-year-old man with the surname Zhao, his daughter, 25, and a 67-year-old man with the surname Sun, reported South Korean news agency Yonhap.

Two of the victims died immediately and one died while receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, according to locals in Jilin province.

China’s Beijing News reported three suspects wearing North Korea military uniforms entered northeastern China’s Jilin province. There, they killed the three Chinese nationals residing in a sub-district of Helong, a city with an ethnic Korean majority less than 25 miles from the North Korea border.

China’s foreign ministry spokesman Hong Le said Beijing has confirmed the killings and the police were investigating, reported The New York Times.

The incident is the third of its kind in this region closest to North Korea.

Last September a North Korean civilian who crossed into China killed a family of three while attempting a robbery, and in December an armed North Korean soldier killed four Chinese citizens because he was hungry – which drew formal complaints from Beijing.

Military personnel in North Korea are given food priority but low-level soldiers go hungry, making prosperous China an easy target for desperate North Koreans.  [UPI]

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