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Seoul says North Korean soldier crosses the border to defect

South Korea's military said Thursday that a North Korean soldier had crossed the border between the rivals to defect.

 

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said military officials were investigating the North Korean soldier, who defected across the central-east portion of the military demarcation line, which is inside the 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide) Demilitarized Zone that separates the countries. The military provided no other details.

 

The Koreas have shared the world's most heavily fortified border since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war.

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.29.16, 10:37