South Korea's presidential office denounced on Wednesday the repatriation of two North Korean fishermen in 2019 as a potential "crime against humanity" by the previous government.
The comments came after Seoul's Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North, released photographs of the two men, who were suspected of killing 16 shipmates, being forcibly dragged across the border between the neighbours.
"If they were forcibly repatriated to the North even when they expressed their will to defect, it's a crime against humanity that violated both international law and the constitution," Kang In-sun, spokeswoman for President Yoon Suk-yeol, told reporters.
