North Korea threatens South for holding fishermen

[yuiyoshida]

North Korea said on Wednesday it would respond firmly if South Korea continued to hold five people who had drifted south in a fishing boat, including three believed to be seeking asylum.

SEOUL: North Korea said on Wednesday it would respond firmly if South Korea continued to hold five people who had drifted south in a fishing boat, including three believed to be seeking asylum.

The spat comes amid political tension between the rival Koreas that remain technically at war under a truce ending the 1950-53 conflict and a slew of verbal assaults from the North against the South Korean government.

The North, in a message relayed by its Red Cross chief to a counterpart in the South, accused South Korean authorities of trying to coerce the five into defecting, calling it "a cowardly act of crime against humanity".

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/north-korea-threatens/1969362.html

[GGJohn]

1. No,

the "a cowardly act of crime against humanity" is what the N. Korean govt does to it's own people.
I don't blame anyone trying to flee that rotten corrupt regime.