Even knowing that “a large number of North Korean deserters have occurred”… Another civilian line drilled a hole

In the early morning of the 16th, on the civilian control line (civil control line) near the East Sea 1 North Korean defectorFound and arrested. While the military authorities are investigating the man’s southward policewoman, there are concerns that a hole has been made in the military border. This is because the only way to get down from North Korea to the civilian control line area south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) is by crossing a barbed wire or infiltrating into the sea.

In 2012, North Korean soldiers knocked on the door of a military post and expressed their intention to defect. ‘Knock defection’This is also where this occurred.

According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this man is in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do, around 4:20 am 22nd Army Division It was first caught on a closed circuit (CC) TV installed at a checkpoint in a local civilian line. At the time, it is said that the man was moving from north to south.

This is why, ‘One Jindo Dog’Has been issued. Battles were deployed not only to the 22nd Division, but also to nearby units. The military even considered the possibility of provocation or military action related to the North Korean military’s winter training held until the end of this month.

According to military sources this Men in their early twenties are doctors who defected during the arrestRevealed. However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “We are conducting an investigation in cooperation with related organizations regarding details such as the South Korean process and whether or not to return to North Korea.” The unusual trend of the North Korean military was not detected.“He said.

It is pointed out from inside and outside the military that a loophole has been revealed in the border over this incident. Military officials who requested anonymity “If you were caught inside the civilian line, it means that you eventually crossed the iron fence or entered by a wooden boat, but it means that you could not be caught in advance.”Said. In this regard, an official of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “The joint Chiefs of Staff and the Army Ground Operations Command are conducting field investigations, including the possibility that they came by sea.”

The military was reprimanded last year as North Korean defectors escaped from the military’s perimeter and escaped through a drainage channel, and North Korean residents crossed a barbed wire on the eastern front of Gangwon Province.

In the early morning of the 16th, a North Korean man was arrested by the military inside the civilian line of the 22nd Division of the Army in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do. The photo shows a soldier of the 22nd Division of the Army in a vigilance operation at a coastal overpass. [뉴시스]

The military authorities have been asking for the specific identity of the North Korean defector by the afternoon of this day, while some people consider their age group. Possibility of desertionWas also raised. Another military official who requested anonymity “The military authorities have obtained information that a large number of deserters occurred in North Korea from the beginning of last month until the Lunar New Year holiday.”He said, “Since then, we have strengthened the alert posture of the front units.” He added, “Usually, the number of deserters increases during winter training by the North Korean military every year,” he added.

Reporters Kim Sang-jin and Park Yong-han [email protected]