Unidentified person crosses border into North Korea, South Korea reports

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An unidentified person has crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea, South Korea’s military says.

South Korea had earlier spotted the person with surveillance equipment at the eastern portion of the border and sent troops to capture him or her on Saturday night. But the troops failed to find the person and the surveillance equipment detected the person crossing over the border, Joint Chiefs of Staff officers said.

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. Earlier in 2020, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed a border city under total lockdown after a North Korean defector with COVID-19-like symptoms sneaked back home. The fate of that defector, who had lived in South Korea, is not known.

The two Koreas are split along the world’s most heavily armed border, called the Demilitarized Zone. An estimated 2 million mines are peppered inside and near the 155-mile-long, 2.5-mile-wide DMZ, which is also guarded by barbed wire fences, tank traps and combat troops on both sides.

 

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For what possible reason? To spend his life in prison there?

Antonio Brown?

So, was he a N.Korean wanted to go back? Or is this someone who hated free society?

Crazy man.

Jack Reacher

I bet they're from Chicago- just looking to be somewhere safer and freer than here🤷

Here intruders are crossing from Pakistan to India and there intruders are crossing from North to South Korea...

? Going home maybe?

Nothing says “I hate myself better than purposefully entering North Korea.

North Korea has some extreme rules around Covid. That person is likely already dead. They don't allow anyone to cross and if you cross you're treated as a biological risk factor.

Hopefully DJT

Maybe it’s the person that set up those bombs near DNC HQ prior to the Jan 6th insurrection cause can’t nobody seem to identify that person either.

Godspeed!

Probably Trump. Missing his love letters from Kim Jung-un.

Escape To Alcatraz.

Wasn't this loser was it?

Could it be Ron De Santis lol....he hasn't been seen in weeks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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