North Korea claims that its soldier fired a warning shot before targeting and killing a South Korean tourist at its Mount Geumgang resort last Friday.

President Yoon Man-joon Yoon of Hyundai Asan, the operator of the Mount Geumgang tours, spoke with reporters Wednesday after returning from a fact-finding visit to the North the previous day.

He said North Korean officials claimed a North Korean soldier spotted the tourist, Park Wang-ja, nearing a rock in a restricted area, some 800 meters from a fence between the North’s military facility protection zone and a beach open to South Korean tourists.

North Korean officials were also quoted as saying that the North Korean guard ordered Park to stop three times and fired a warning shot. The South Korean woman turned around and began running back toward the hotel when the North Korean soldier fired three more shots and killed her.

Yoon said the analysis of CCTV footage shows the victim left her hotel at 4:18 a.m., 13 minutes earlier than originally reported.

Park was killed between 4:55 and 5:00 a.m. at a site 300 meters from the fence.
The North initially said that the site of the killing was 200 meters from the fence, and that the tourist was shot dead at 4:50 a.m.

Yoon added that he delivered Seoul’s request for a joint probe into the incident, but it was rejected by Pyongyang.