By AFPMore by this AuthorSEOULA North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side Monday while defecting to South Korea at the truce village of Panmunjom, the South's military said. "Our military has taken in a North Korean soldier after he crossed from a North Korea post towards our Freedom House," the statement said, referring to a building on the South side of the village which is bisected by the border. The defector was taken to hospital after being shot by another North Korean soldier, the South's military said. Two North Korean soldiers defected to the South in June after crossing the frontier at another location. Over the decades since the peninsula was divided, dozens of North Korean soldiers have fled to the South through the DMZ, which extends for two kilometres either side of the actual borderline.

Source: Daily Nation November 13, 2017 14:37 UTC