It was said that he made up his mind to come over to the north with the resolve to find a way out. Finding it hard to live in south Korea he roamed about foreign countries including Japan. But as those countries declined to offer him an asylum he went back to south Korea and finally he decided to come over to the north.

The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued information bulletin No. 1043 Thursday which said:

The regime is made up of barbarians in human form as they ruthlessly killed the bare-handed innocent inhabitant who tried to enter the northern half of Korea in quest of a way of living.

Worse still, when the truth about the case was disclosed only to stir up a big furor, the regime raised such lame excuses as "non-compliance" and "flight". It is also hell-bent on the smear campaign against the DPRK, labeling him a "north's spy who attempted to defect to the north".

For fear of denunciation at home and abroad against its brutal atrocity, the regime has not opened to public the real address and name of the man.

It is the height of shamelessness that the regime is trumpeting about "human rights" and "ethnics" of someone when it is trying to justify the shuddering killing and abuse him for escalating confrontation with the north by labeling him a "spy of the north".

The puppet authorities should thoroughly probe the truth about the merciless killing of the innocent inhabitant and sternly punish those involved in it.