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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:27 am Post subject: North Korean soldier shoots comrades, defects to South |
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A North Korean soldier on guard duty at the border dividing the two Koreas defected, telling authorities who received him in the South that he killed his superiors before fleeing across the Military Demarcation Line.
South Korean soldiers at their guard posts reported hearing gunfire before he crossed into the South shortly after noon local time, according to a news release from South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Soldiers in the South took the defector in on their side of the border and brought him to a safe place for questioning then tightened security in the area.
The North Korean said that "while he was on guard duty, he killed his platoon and squad leaders and defected thereafter," the JCS said.
Defections over land through the heavily armed and fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) are rare, as most fleeing the communist North prefer the greater odds of success of crossing by sea.
"The last North Korean soldier who defected (over land) was in March 2010," said a spokesman from the defense ministry in Seoul.
But with his comrades dead and no longer capable of hindering him, it was easy for the soldier to flee south.
"The distance between the North Korean guard post and the South Korean guard post is 500 meters," the official said, who asked not to be named, because he is not authorized to speak with the media.
More than 24,000 refugees have entered the South from the North since the country's division, according to the Ministry of Unification in Seoul, over two-thirds of them women.
The annual number of refugees has climbed steadily from less than 100 in the 1990s to more than 2,000 per year since 2006.
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Things could get ugly when NK demands the soldier back. |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012
Location: We Are The World!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| I'll gladly welcome him with a lesson in how to say 'It wasn't me!' |
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Bollocks
Joined: 12 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Good for him!
How do you say, "Let me buy you a beer!" in North Korean? |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| A lot of loss of face for the Norks, expect them to make a serious issue of this one. Most defections are low-profile affairs by the back door. |
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newb
Joined: 27 Aug 2012
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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This incident offers South Korean soldiers some ideas.  |
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