North Korea Soldier Defects to Republic of Korea Despite Being Shot

A North Korean soldier defected across a sensitive space of the border dividing the Korean Peninsula despite being shot by his fellow troops, South Korea’s military aforesaid weekday.

"South Korean Peninsula received a North Korean soldier United Nations agency defected from a North Korean guard post” close to the Joint Security space, the workers|Joint Chiefs|executive agency} of Staff aforesaid in a very text message. The soldier was taken on to hospital.

The Joint Security space is that the solely a part of the zone wherever forces from each countries stand face-to-face. The last reported  defection by a North Korean soldier was in late June. A Defense Ministry official didn’t forthwith recognize the last time a North Korean soldier was shot whereas defecting.

While defection by a North Korean soldier or civilian isn’t rare, it’s tough to cross the border by land within the JSA space because it is heavily guarded.