News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
Kang Tong-Rim, was now under "the warm care of authorities" and was "pleased with his accomplishment". Crossings through the zone between the two Koreas are rare, and defections from South to North even more so...A military spokesman acknowledged...
News Source: China Post
| about 1 month ago
South Korea — A 30-year-old South Korean defected to communist North Korea by crossing the heavily fortified border dividing the two Koreas, Pyongyang's state media said Tuesday. The man crossed into North Korea on Monday and was in the country's "...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
A South Korean pig farmer has defected to North Korea after crossing the heavily fortified land border, the communist state's official media said on Tuesday. Kang Tong-Rim, 30, and said that on Monday he crossed the eastern section of the...
News Source: Leader Post Online
| about 1 month ago
A South Korean man who worked at Samsung Electronics' semiconductor unit and more recently at a pig farm has defected to the communist North by walking across the heavily mined border, state media said on Tuesday. Crossings are rare through the...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 month ago
Kang Dong-Rim, 30, and said he crossed the eastern section of the Demilitarised Zone which bisects the peninsula yesterday...Thousands of North Koreans have defected to the South in recent years, but it is very rare for South Koreans to defect to the...