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6-year-old boy floats away in balloon...
ArmyVern said:Where's the Haiku?
X-mo-1979 said:I wouldn't doubt that if she was a member here she would be typing in this thread. "a Newfoundlander who made strange references to rabbits while she walked poofy and truffles" ;D.
NKorea claims SKorean crossed DMZ to defect
10/27/2009 | 08:12 PM
- AP
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean man defected to communist North Korea by crossing the heavily fortified frontier, Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday — but it didn't say how he navigated a no man's land where guards can shoot to kill.
If confirmed, the case would be a rare instance of a South Korean defecting to the impoverished North, though thousands have defected from North Korea to the South in recent years.
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said the 30-year-old man crossed into North Korea on Monday and was in the country's "warm care."
KCNA did not say how he was able to cross the Demilitarized Zone, which is guarded by hundreds of thousands of combat-ready troops on both sides. The 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer-wide) DMZ is also strewn with land mines and laced with barbed wire.
South Korean guards are authorized to shoot to kill anyone caught in the zone who cannot provide the correct password, a spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.
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The report said the man, identified as Kang Tong Rim, had harbored a "longing" for North Korea and tried to defect several times while serving mandatory South Korean military service between 2001-2003.
"He is pleased with the accomplishment of his desire for defection," KCNA said.
South Korea's military and National Intelligence Service spy agency said they were checking the KCNA report, which was monitored in Seoul.
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NKorea claims SKorean crossed DMZ to defect
Journeyman said:Maybe he's just NDP/Green, and wanted to live in a country whose
carbon footprint isn't burdened with a working power grid ;D