South Korea said on Sunday it was "unimaginable" for a North Korean soldier to shoot dead a unarmed housewife vacationing at a resort in the North, calling on it to come clean over the incident damaging already strained ties.
The women, 53, was gunned down in the predawn hours of Friday when she apparently wandered into a North Korean military area near the Mount Kumgang resort, located on the east coast and just a few kilometres north of the heavily fortified border. "If a strict investigation is not conducted over this tragic incident, that would be like throwing cold water on expectations for developments in inter-Korean relations through South-North talks," the Unification Ministry said in a statement.
"The act was wrong by any measure, unimaginable and should not have taken place at all." South Korea suspended tourism after the shooting and officials said that all of the about 1,300 tourists at the resort at the time of the incident would have left by Sunday.
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