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We visited on day 5, Myeongparis Village in Hyeonnae-myeon, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do (photo = Reporter Yoo Seon-hee)
Local residents complain that the vanguard of the Gangwon Eastern Front was reopened eight years after the 2012 ‘coup desertion’ incident occurred.
On the 5th, the day after the discovery of a North Korean man believed to be a civilian, the town of Myungparis in Hyeonnae-myeon, Goseong-gun, the northernmost part of the country, was as quiet as usual. The atmosphere of the past could be heard from the residents who met and chatted with them.
Park Mo (78), a resident, said: “I don’t know who tells me, and I don’t know, but I prevented the neighbors from going to the mountain to pick vegetables and then I found out after seeing the news.” “I don’t know what the army did.” He added: “I was born and raised here, but since I live in the northernmost part of the world, I am anxious and concerned about the desertion incident.”
A North Korean man crosses the barbed wire and a Jindo dog, an anti-invasion warning is issued on the eastern front, and the troops that were put into operation on the fourth day of the search operation are withdrawing once the situation has finished.
Another Jomo resident (69) said: “I remembered the moment when a soldier from the 22nd Division handled a firearm and deserted in 2014. At that time, all the residents were evacuated to City Hall and were also controlled for several days. As the search for the defected North Koreans dragged on, I wondered if we all had to evacuate, ”he shook his head.
“The barbed wire handling seems to be too poor,” said Hong Mo, 69, a resident alongside him. “We believe in the soldiers in front of us, so we really want to work more tense and responsible.”
Kim Mo (60), who has run a supermarket for more than 50 years, said, “Ah … I don’t know why it keeps popping up,” saying: technology since the Knock desertion incident. I don’t know if I’ve become negligent. ”
The Unification Observatory and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) Museum, which were closed on the 4th due to the defection of the North Koreans, reopened on this day.
With triple barbed wire installed in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do (far right), last year visitors walked the “DMZ Peace Road” section.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, etc., on the 4th, around 9:50 a.m., North Koreans were found in North Korea in an area 1.5 km from our army’s GOP. It’s been 14 hours since the military captured him with Thermal Imaging Equipment (TOD) and began searching.
However, it is noted that the ‘surveillance blind spot’ has occurred without the ‘barbed wire detection sensor (light web)’ which can detect when the barbed wire is crossed before being detected by the monitoring team. surveillance. The barbed wire sensor should sound when a person or animal touches the barbed wire. After that, it is a system where the express booking team dispatches immediately. However, attention is being paid to causes such as machine malfunction or defects without the sensor sounding. The barbed wire detection sensor is said to have been installed by the private sector.
Currently, military authorities are investigating whether the sensor was activated when the North Koreans crossed the barbed wire. At the time of the discovery, the residents were known to have followed the orders of the Korean military, and the possibility of coming to South Korea for the purpose of returning to Korea is being considered.
In the midst of this, the Goseong area is the place where the ‘coup defection’ occurred in 2012, and there is criticism that the border was reopened after 8 years. At that moment, a North Korean soldier came to our Republican Party without any sanction, knocked on the door and revealed his intention to defect. Even with the introduction of high-tech equipment, the border clears, raising questions about whether the follow-up measures for the front-line alert posture were carried out correctly.
