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North Korean officer defects to South: military
Reuters via ABC News ^ | Apr 28, 2008

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; koreandefectors; northkorea

1 posted on 04/28/2008 1:53:24 AM PDT by james500
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To: james500

Food must look pretty good day in and day out .


2 posted on 04/28/2008 2:04:46 AM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Deetes

The North Koreans do feed their military. If it gets to where
they can’t, the regime is through.


3 posted on 04/28/2008 2:18:16 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: james500
"What? You guys get real paper Chinese noodles? I'm on my way..."
4 posted on 04/28/2008 2:34:42 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: james500; Army Air Corps; TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo

NK/SK ping


5 posted on 04/28/2008 2:37:02 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Dog; jeffers

ping to y’all, too


6 posted on 04/28/2008 2:39:11 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Anti-Bubba182; james500; Deetes; Caipirabob

One of these days there’s going to be a Berlin Wall moment and then: The deluge. “Tungil!” (Reunification)


7 posted on 04/28/2008 2:39:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: james500

Must have been a tough decision to make as any family left behind will certainly be abused like crazy.


8 posted on 04/28/2008 3:02:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: txflake

The first officer in ten years - that is pretty significant.


9 posted on 04/28/2008 7:07:32 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: james500

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).


10 posted on 04/30/2008 8:01:24 PM PDT by Int (Sins of the media: exaggeration and oversimplification)
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To: Int

I think defectors usually choose to go by way of China.


11 posted on 04/30/2008 8:05:20 PM PDT by james500
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