DPRK compensates for killings

SEOUL - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has paid thousands of dollars in compensation to the relatives of three Chinese nationals shot dead by its border guards this month, an online newspaper said on Wednesday.

Daily NK quoted an unidentified DPRK businessman in Dandong, China, as saying that a DPRK delegation visited the border town this week and apologized for the June 4 shooting.

The delegation paid $3,000 each to the families of the victims, he said.