The South’s military said it was still trying to determine who the border-crosser was — whether it was a South Korean citizen, a North Korean spy or an unhappy defector going home, or some other possibility. No South Korean soldiers were missing from their units along the eastern part of the border in Gangwon Province, where the breach occurred, the military said. The two Koreas have technically been at war for decades, the Korean War having been halted in 1953 with a truce, not a peace treaty. Later that year, North Korea caused outrage in​ the​ South when its troops shot and killed a South Korean ​fisheries official in waters near the border. The South, which said the official had been trying to defect, accused the North Koreans of burning his body at sea.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 02, 2022 11:40 UTC