North Korean crosses the heavily fortified border to South Korea
Seoul, South Korea (AP) – an unidentified North Korean man crossed the intense reinforced land border separating the two Korea and in South Korean custody.
Southern Joint Chiefs of General Staff, the army on Thursday night, the central-west part of the military border line has identified and watched and watching the person to detain the person, he said.
Authorized, the authorities plan to investigate the border crossing and whether they saw the incident as a illegal trial, they said they did not immediately say. The common chiefs said that he did not immediately detect the unusual military activities by the North.
In recent months, border tensions, two Koreas Cold War -style psychological war trade, while North Korea sent thousands of garbage balloon to South and South Korea and exploded anti -Pyongyang propaganda through speakers.
South Korea’s new liberal president since he took office last month Lee Jae Myung did it Efforts to rebuild confidence with North KoreaStop the speaker broadcasts with front facade and prohibit activists from flying balloons carrying propaganda brochures along the border.
In April, South Korean troops fired warning shots To push the military border line briefly about 10 North Korean soldiers. The Southern Army said the soldiers returned to North Korean territory without incident and that the North did not return to fire.
In June last year, North Korean troops passed through the border three timesAsking South Korea to make warnings. Experts suggested that these transitions may be accidentally, as North Korean troops added anti -tank barriers, they are planning to support the border defenses between mines and increasing tensions between the choreas.
The diplomacy between the war -compartment choreas came out of the rail since the collapse of the purification of nuclear weapons between Washington and Pyongyang in 2019, which threatened to accelerate the expansion of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s military nuclear program and to nuclear conflict against Washington and Seul. South Korea’s previous conservative government responded by strengthening the combined military exercises with the US and Japan, which the North condemned as invasion rehearsals.
