S.Korea sees DPRK's dam discharge as "intentional"

SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Wednesday said the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) may intentionally caused a deadly flood by discharging water from a dam, which killed six South Koreans.

Addressing a session of the National Assembly's Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee, Unification Minister Hyun In-taek said "I think the North (DPRK) did it intentionally."

Hyun is the first South Korean official who publicly accused the DPRK of deliberately causing the accident.

Seoul believed that the DPRK intentionally discharged some 40 million tons of water from its Hwanggang Dam into a cross-border river Sunday, he said, without giving further details, according local media.

South Korea had previously said it was looking at the case with all possibilities open.