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An incident occurred in which a North Korean resident, believed to be a refugee, crossed the Eastern Front into South Korea. South Korean military authorities are investigating North Korean residents about the process of going south and asylum. Reporter Kim Hwan-yong reports from Seoul.
Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on the 4th that “the army tracked down unknown personnel captured by the surveillance team off the eastern part of Gangwon-do, and secured recruits around 9:50 am.”
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said: “The person who has been recruited is a North Korean man, and details such as the South Korean process and asylum status will be investigated under the cooperation of related agencies.”
The man was captured within a civilian line of control in the Goseong area, and it is said that there were no other conflicts in the military recruitment process.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff explained that so far there is no unusual trend from the North Korean military.
The army and related agencies such as the National Intelligence Service are known to be evacuating the man to confirm his identity and investigate the guards.
In the area, around 7 to 8 pm on the 3rd, an unidentified person was caught approaching the iron fence.
The ROK military authorities upgraded the anti-invasion border ‘Jindogae’ to ‘Uno’ and launched a search operation, and recruitment was secured within 10 hours of the situation.
This man is believed to have broken some of the most important barbed wire.
The most important iron fence is installed in three layers. There is a possibility that the military could not identify the signals until the triple barbed wire was crossed.
In particular, there is a scientific alert system installed at the forefront of the fence, so when a person or animal touches the fence, a sensor sounds and a 5-minute waiting group is immediately dispatched.
For this reason, there are also doubts as to whether the sensor is working properly.
Along with this, the man was known to have been captured by the army’s thermal imaging team, TOD, even before Vietnam.
It is reported that the Joint Chiefs of Staff will dispatch a war inspection team to the relevant guards accordingly.
Due to the search operation that continued from the night of the 3rd, the Unification Observation Platform and the DMZ Museum on the civil control line stopped public tourism for a day.
North Korean citizens crossed the military demarcation line and entered South Korea after one year and three months after a North Korean soldier went into exile across the Imjin River on the central front line.
On December 1, 2018, a North Korean soldier crossed the military demarcation line on the Eastern Front and went into exile, and on November 13, 2017, North Korean soldier Oh Chung-seong went into exile through the Panmunjom Joint Security Area (JSA).
In Mr. Oh’s case, at that time, he was also shot by a North Korean pursuit team.
This is the news from the Seoul VOA, Kim Hwan-yong.
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