Unification Spokesperson Statement
July 14, 2015 It is deeply regrettable that North Korea
has unilaterally conducted a press conference on Joo Won-moon
without responding to the requests of the R.O.K. government and the
international community to release and repatriate our detained
citizens.
We once again urge the North to
immediately release our citizen, Joo Won-moon along with Kim Jung
wook, Kim Kook kie, and Choi Chun gil.
As our
detained citizens have been denied access even to their families for
a long period of time, their concerned families are anxiously
waiting for their loved ones to return home.
From a
humanitarian perspective, we urge the North to take immediate
measures to allow the families, our government officials, and the
counsel to access our detained citizens.
The R.O.K. government will exert our
utmost and multilateral efforts by closely cooperating with the
international community to have the detained citizens return to
their families as soon as possible.
