President Lee proposes returning unconverted NK prisoners via China

President Lee Jae Myung on Friday raised exploring the possibility of repatriating long-term unconverted prisoners in South Korea to North Korea via China, amid stalled inter-Korean negotiations. "Even if we try to send them back to the North, there is no reaction from North Korea," Lee said during a policy briefing from the Ministry of Unification. Lee was referring to Seoul’s proposal to repatriate North Korean prisoners, which Pyongyang has not responded to. While acknowledging that direct re