On the 16th, when the military authorities secured a recruit of a figure suspected of being a North Korean male in the area of the civilian line in the East Sea, there is a sense of silence in the area of the civilian line in Goseong, Gangwon-do. Gangwon Goseong = Yonhap News
The boundary of the eastern front of Gangwon-do was also broken by the North Koreans. On the 16th, the Joint Chiefs of Staff captured a North Korean man at the East Sea Civilian Control Line (Civil Control Line), a few kilometers south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). Three hours have passed since it was first captured. In November of last year, North Koreans crossed the East Front General Outpost (GOP) to South Korea, and three months later, the borders of the same unit were broken again.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at around 4:20 am on the same day, unknown personnel moving from north to south at a checkpoint on the East Sea Civil Control Line were captured on a closed circuit (CC) TV. Afterwards, at 7:20, three hours after the operative troops were put into the search, his recruits were secured. In this process, the military is known to have issued and lifted the’One Jindo Dog’, an anti-invasion warning order. The military maintains’three Jindo dogs’ during peacetime, but raises them to’two’ if it is expected to infiltrate the North Korean military, and to’one’ if it is determined that the enemy’s infiltration and anti-aircraft potential are clear.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “The unknown personnel are presumed to be North Korean men, and investigations are underway in cooperation with related agencies for details such as South Korean process, return status, and status.”
To date, the exact route to Vietnam has not been determined. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is investigating not only the iron fence but also the possibility of sea movement. Some say that the man was caught by CCTV on the front shore. If it had moved by sea, the possibility of using a small wooden ship is first raised. It is because swimming over the sea in subzero cold weather is almost impossible without special equipment such as a wet suit.
After three months, the front was cleared again, leaving the unit’s poor alertness on the cutting board. This unit is the place where North Korean soldiers knocked on the door of a guard post in 2012 to express their intention to return to the door of the so-called ‘Knock defection’, and in November last year, North Koreans returned to GOP. It is pointed out as a problem that it took 3 hours to secure new recruits even though the men were first caught this time and troops with the concept of’five minutes waiting group’ were dispatched. A military official said, “The details will be understood only after the personnel of the Joint Forces Warfare Inspection Office and the Army Ground Operations Command Inspection Office conduct a field investigation.”
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