SEOUL — A North Korean defected to the South by walking across the heavily fortified border that separates the peninsula, Seoul's military said Tuesday.
SEOUL — A North Korean defected to the South by walking across the heavily fortified border that separates the peninsula, Seoul 's military said Tuesday.Tens of thousands of North Korean s have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, but the majority cross the land border into China first.Preliminary figures from the unification ministry show this year until June some 105 people defected.
Local media reported that the latest defector walked along the road by the waterfront in eastern Gangwon province, and was wearing a North Korean military uniform when picked up by authorities.It is the second this month, after another person made it across the de facto maritime border in the Yellow Sea on August 8.
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