South Korean Man Repatriated After Running Away to North Korea

Did Im Jong-seok run away from the Blue House?:

North Korea repatriated a South Korean citizen Tuesday through the border village of Panmunjom in a “positive humanitarian” move, Seoul’s unification ministry said.

In a message to Seoul a day earlier, Pyongyang claimed the 34-year-old, identified only by his surname Suh, illegally entered the country on July 22.

On Monday, the North’s Red Cross informed the South of a plan to send him back, and Seoul accepted the offer.

The North repatriated Suh via Panmunjom at 11 a.m. as scheduled, a ministry official told reporters.

He is under investigation by the South’s authorities into why and how he entered the North. He left for China before July 22, an informed source said.

The government views the North’s repatriation of Suh as “positive from a humanitarian perspective,” the official added.

But six South Korean nationals, including three missionaries, are still detained in the communist nation.  [Yonhap]

It is interesting that President Trump was able to get all the American detainees released, but Moon Jae-in has done nothing to get ROK detainees released.