South Korean defects to North Korea in rare northward crossing of heavily armed border

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A South Korean has crossed the heavily fortified border in a rare defection to North Korea, Seoul said on Sunday.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it carried out a search operation after detecting the person at around 9:20pm on Saturday on the eastern side of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.

It was unclear if this was a rare case of a South Korean hoping to defect to the North, or it could be a North Korean who briefly entered the South Korean territory for some reason before returning to the North. The border crossing, which is illegal in South Korea, came as North Korea carries out strict anti-coronavirus measures since shutting borders in early 2020, though it has not confirmed any infections.

The North’s prolonged lockdowns and restrictions on interprovincial movement have also pushed the number of North Korean defectors arriving in the South to an all-time low. Cross-border relations soured after denuclearization negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington stalled since a failed summit in 2019.

 

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