Posted on 04/28/2008 1:53:24 AM PDT by james500
A North Korean officer fled across the heavily armed border with the South, the first officer to defect to the capitalist neighbor in about 10 years, a South Korean military official said on Monday.
A Joint Chiefs of Staff official said the defection took place on Sunday. Yonhap news agency quoted a government official as saying it was near the Panmunjom truce village set up in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that has divided the peninsula for more than 50 years.
"We cannot comment on the rank or route the person used, because the officer is still under interrogation," the official told Reuters.
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Food must look pretty good day in and day out .
The North Koreans do feed their military. If it gets to where
they can’t, the regime is through.
NK/SK ping
ping to y’all, too
One of these days there’s going to be a Berlin Wall moment and then: The deluge. “Tungil!” (Reunification)
Must have been a tough decision to make as any family left behind will certainly be abused like crazy.
The first officer in ten years - that is pretty significant.
Wow, I would like to hear more details about how this actually happened. I would have thought an officer in uniform simply crossing the DMZ would have easily set off a firefight (from either side).
I think defectors usually choose to go by way of China.
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