Shots fired at DMZ as North Korean soldier defects to South
None
South Korean guards fired warning shots across the heavily militarised border with North Korea on Thursday as a soldier from the North defected in thick fog, complicating efforts to ease tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programmes.
A South Korean defence ministry official said up to 20 warning shots were fired as North Korean troops approached too near the "military demarcation line" at the demilitarised zone (DMZ), apparently in search of the missing soldier.
Thursday's defection came about five weeks after a North Korean soldier suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border.
Two North Korean civilians were also found in a fishing boat on Wednesday and had sought to defect, officials in the South said.
