S. Korea arrests former top officials over 2020 killing | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

SEOUL--South Korea’s former defense minister and coast guard chief were arrested Saturday over their alleged involvement in covering up facts and distorting the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020 near the rivals’ tense sea border.

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