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Seoul: No evidence slain official tried to defect to N Korea

FILE - North Korean army soldiers are seen at a military guard post in Paju, at the border with North Korea, South Korea, June 18, 2020. South Korea’s new conservative government says there is no evidence that a South Korean official slain by North Korea near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary in 2020 had intended to defect to the North. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP, File)

Park Sang-chun, head of the Incheon Coast Guard, speaks during a press conference in Incheon, South Korea, Thursday, June 16, 2022. South Korea’s new conservative government says there is no evidence that a South Korean official slain by North Korea near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary in 2020 had intended to defect to the North. (Newsis/Kim Dong-young via AP)

Seoul: No evidence slain official tried to defect to N Korea