“The army identified the individual near the military demarcation line and has monitored and monitoring“Said the South Korean joint staff in a statement. She then”successfully conducted a standard guidance operation to ensure the capture of the individual“Adds the document.
THE “competent authorities“Also go to the detailed circumstances of the incident, which occurred in the center-west of the DMZ, said the army.
North Koreans who arrive in the South are generally handed over to Seoul’s intelligence services for investigation.
The vast majority of defections to the south take place via China and one or more third countries, the crossings of the DMZ, a buffer area 4 km wide between the two Koreas, heavily supervised and infested with mines, being extremely rare.
In April, the South Korean army had fired the warning after an incursion on its side of the border of a dozen North Korean soldiers, who had retired.
In May, South Korea had collected four North Koreans whose boat had derived in its territorial waters, in a priori accidental way, in the sea of ​​Japan.
More than 34,000 North Koreans have fled south since the Korean War (1950-1953).
During his inauguration speech in June, the new South Korean President of Center-Gauche, Lee Jae-Myung, said he wanted to reach out to North Korea, contrasting with the hard line of his predecessor dismissed, Yoon Suk Yeol.
