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U.S. Side's Deliberate Obstruction to Inter-Korean Humanitarian Work Flayed

KCNA

    Panmunjom, October 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces side is committing such unethical crime as interfering in the humanitarian work under way between the north-south Red Cross organizations and deliberately delaying the handover of the dead body of a farmer of the north side. The U.S. forces side recovered the dead body of a man presumed to be from the north side in the waters off Yonphyong Islet on October 8. DPRK-U.S. military staff officers had contacts in Panmunjom on Oct 15, 16 and 18 as regards the case.
    At the contact the side of the Korean People's Army informed the U.S. forces side of the fact that the dead body was a farmer of the Sojong Co-op Farm, Chongdan County, South Hwanghae Province, who met a tragic death after going out to the sea to gather shell-fish on September 29 after conducting an investigation into his identity on the basis of photographs of his body and articles left by him. It asked the U.S. forces side to hand over the dead body to the north side without delay through the north-south Red Cross organizations according to usual practice.
    The results of the investigation made by our side leave no doubt as to their accuracy as they are based on the testimonies made by his bereaved family, relatives and friends to the photographs of the dead body and articles left by him. Yet, the U.S. forces side groundlessly turned down our just demand for the handover of the dead body, insisting that he was a "soldier."
    The head of our side to the Panmunjom DPRK-U.S. Colonel-level military talks in a telephone massage on October 24 repeatedly requested the U.S. forces side to send the dead body to his bereaved family as early as possible and the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society asked its counterpart in the south for cooperation in the earliest possible handover of the dead body according to the usual humanitarian practice as he was a civilian.
    Due to the adamant absurd assertion of the U.S. forces side, the dead body has not been handed over to his bereaved family though 20 days have passed since its recovery.
    The U.S. forces side should stop at once such dastardly act as deliberately creating obstacle to the inter-Korean humanitarian work after impertinently meddling in it.