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North Korea is still refusing to let South Korean officials investigate the fatal shooting of a Seoul tourist by one of its soldiers, a tour boss said yesterday after talks in the communist state.Aa The killing at the North's Mount Kumgang resort, after the woman strayed into a military area, has caused shock and anger in the South and has further soured relations between the two sides. The North blames the South for the incident and refuses to let it send government officials for an on-site investigation. "I strongly called for a joint probe to close this case, but the North has not shown any change to its previous position that a joint investigation is not needed," Hyundai Asan president Yoon Man-Joon said on his return from a four-day trip.

"I have to say that there was no tangible progress except that I conveyed (South Korean) public opinion and stressed the need for investigations." Yoon, whose firm operates the Kumgang resort, met three tourism officials. He said he heard that a North Korean closed-circuit TV camera on a beach where the woman was shot had not been working at the time. Yoon said that in the account he received of the killing, "there seemed to be some points different from the (North's) initial report made shortly after the incident." He gave no details. Local media and officials have cast doubt on the times and other details in the account which the North first gave to Hyundai Asan. The North said the tourist, who was taking a dawn stroll on the beach near her hotel, had gone "beyond the clearly marked boundary fence" and intruded into a military area. It said she fled when challenged and did not stop even when a soldier discharged warning shots, forcing him to open fire twice. The funeral of the victim, 53-year-old housewife Park Wang-Ja, was held yesterday in Seoul. Her 23-year-son Bang Jae-Jeong wept during the Christian ceremony.

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