N. Korean soldier shot while defecting to S. Korea: Seoul
Seoul, (MILLAT ONLINE):A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side Monday while defecting to South Korea at the border truce village of Panmunjom, the South’s military said.
The soldier was shot in the shoulder and elbow and was picked up bleeding on the South side of a portion of the border known as the Joint Security Area.
It is rare for the North’s troops to defect at the truce village, a major tourist attraction and the only part of the frontier where forces from the two sides come face-to-face.
“Our military has taken in a North Korean soldier after he crossed from a North Korea post towards our Freedom
House,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, referring to a building on the South side of the village which is bisected by the borderline.
An JCS official quoted by Yonhap news agency said the soldier was evacuated to a private hospital by a
UN helicopter.