3 North Korean defectors talk about what it was like crossing the demilitarized zone

Kim Kang Yoo was shaking as he passed by his fellow soldiers at North Korea's front-line guard post. A security guard looked at him in the eye, and Kim held on tight to his knapsack. He knew by instinct that if he acted awkwardly, the soldiers guarding the North-South Korea border might notice that he was there not to carry out his assigned mission.

In the last three years, 3,682 North Koreans have escaped to South Korea, according to the Unification Ministry. Only six of them -- less than 0.002% -- ran across the untouched area of tension to defect. South Korea's Defense Ministry neither confirmed nor denied the number of defectors through the DMZ. A majority of defectors tend to use routes through a third country like China and Thailand, which is also risky but without the threat of gunfire from colleagues at the DMZ.

An escaped the communist regime on July 27, 1979. The rainy season had just begun so the weather was foggy and nippy. He believed that heavy fog could help him hide. Unlike An, who knew how to avoid electricity running through the barbed-wire fence, Kim chose the ragged valley to avoid mines buried in fields and looked for cracks under the fence that were safe enough to get through. He assumed that electricity won't be running on the fences above water.

To Kim's dismay, he confronted yet another fence on the South Korean side. This time it was so thick and the roots were so strongly buried to the ground that there was no way he could dig a hole underneath. Instead of finding a way around it, he decided to climb over the fence. In doing so, the wires scratched his arms and ripped his uniform. Exhausted, Kim laid himself in front of the South Korean guard post speechless until the soldiers noticed him.

Spying on both japan and south korea.

We as Americans forget how good we have it.

You believe this? Movies and fashion fill the news most days. Flint is a water crisis¿ not environmental racism and genocide? Memphis is a riot not genocide by a police state? You think they know about this one girl in Korea? Seriously Korean Herald dont have the story fake

How we know its is true? You ALL HAVE lied and made up things for propagation of agendas. I dont believe this story. You can tell us anything we have no verifiable proof nothing you put on a screen can be believed as is look at your coverage and lack thereof of Memphis.

Great story. God bless them

It would be a fine time to start going to church!!

Move them to the WH, they’ll learn it’s sorta’ like home!

Fascinating story of bravery.

The wall/fence is meant to keep NoKo's in? We thought it was to keep the SoKo's out of that Marxist/Socialist paradise.

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