{"id":76681,"date":"2017-12-21T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76681"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:16:43","slug":"more-north-korean-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76681","title":{"rendered":"More North Korean defections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yonhap News <\/a>reports that another North Korean soldier defected across the De-Militarized Zone dividing North and South Korea last week, prompting gunfire from both sides;<\/p>\n

The “low-ranking” soldier appeared in front of a guard post on the mid-western front at around 8:04 a.m. amid thick fog, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).<\/p>\n

After the defection, the North’s border guards approached the military demarcation line (MDL) apparently in search of the defector, a JCS official told reporters.<\/p>\n

In response, the South’s troops fired some 20 warning shots at around 9:30 a.m., he said.<\/p>\n

Roughly 40 minutes later, there was the sound of several gunshots from the North, but no bullets were found to have crossed the border, he added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The South Korean Navy also reports that a small wooden boat was discovered after two North Korean men used that boat to defect to the south.<\/p>\n

“The Navy found it in waters about 100 kilometers north of Dokdo during a patrol mission,” a ministry official said at a press briefing. “A joint probe into the details of their identities is under way.”<\/p>\n

The North Korean men expressed their intent to defect and agreed to abandon the aged and apparently damaged ship, added the official.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other Nork news<\/a>, Park In-young, the head of North Korea\u2019s Bureau 131, the agency responsible for military facilities is believed to have been executed after a failed nuclear test and a tunnel collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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