Seoul: Senior North Korea military officer defects to South

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Seoul: Senior North Korea military officer defects to South

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul officials say a senior North Korean military intelligence officer has defected to South Korea.

Seoul's Defense Ministry said Monday that a colonel from the North Korean military's General Reconnaissance Bureau defected to South Korea last year. It didn't elaborate.

The reconnaissance agency was believed to be behind two deadly attacks blamed on Pyongyang that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.

There have been occasional reports of lower-level North Korean soldiers defecting but it is unusual for a colonel to flee to the South.

More than 29,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

Seoul said last week that 13 North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country had defected to the South.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-04-11

[wabothai]

We are not really interested in the fact that the guy defected, we are interested in what the man has to say.

[ggt]

Hope he keeps a low profile...the N. Korean hit squad...just placed him at the top of the list...

[Pinot]

They'd all leave if they could.

[arend]

Major decision for the guy... retaliation against his family sure to take place... one way authoritarian regimes keep people in line through fear and terror...