Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announced that the conscripted police system may be reintroduced as a part of measures to better prevent heinous crimes that target random people.
The police and senior district officials simply reiterated “sorry” but didn’t accept their responsibility sincerely. The government must get to the bottom of the disaster if it really does not want such mishaps to be repeated over and over.
To draw lessons from the Itaewon disaster, the authorities must express deep condolences, find who must take responsibility for the tragedy and come up with effective measures to prevent such disasters.
Yoon Hee-keun, commissioner general of the National Police Agency, appeared before the public three days after the crowd crush tragedy on Saturday and pledged to find out who should take responsibility.
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