4/7/2025–|Last update: 17:17 (Mecca time)
The South Korean army said on Friday that an unidentified North Korea man across the high -fortified land border separating the two sides is currently in detention.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the army has set the position and followed up near the Western Central Part of the Military Draging line and conducted a “direction” before his arrest on Thursday night.
She added that the authorities are planning to investigate the crossing of the border and have not yet mentioned whether the incident considered an attempt to defect.
The Staff explained that it had informed the United States -led United Nations Command of the incident and did not monitor any immediate signs of unusual military activity before north korea.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a South Korean military team approached an unarmed North Korean man after his monitoring, and after they introduced themselves as South Korean soldiers, they guided him safely outside the area filled with mines that divide the two Koreas.
The process continued about 20 hours, according to Seoul. The man monitored for the first time by a South Korean military monitoring mechanism between the third and fourth from the dawn of Thursday (18:00 and 19: 00 Wednesday, GMT).
The army mobilized a large number of its members of this operation, which was carried out in an area that is difficult to move due to the spread of mines and plant density.
The “competent authorities” will launch an investigation into the circumstances of the incident, which occurred in the western center of the weapon, according to the army.
Fleeing and splitting
The North Koreans arrive in the south to intelligence to investigate them. The majority of splits usually occurs from north to south China Or another country.
The buffer zone is rarely crossed by 4 km weapons, which are subject to severe monitoring and mine.
It is noteworthy that more than 34,000 North Koreans have fled to the south since Korean War (1950-1953).
The new South Korean President Li Jae Meongig expressed his intention to extend the hand to North Korea, in a position that contradicts the hard -line approach of his article, Eun Suk Yol.