Knock defection→ Iron fence defection→ Flippers defection…軍, I didn’t know even though it was caught on CCTV 3 times

View larger-It was revealed that a North Korean man A, found on the civilian control line (civil control line) in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do, the eastern front on the 16th, swam for 6 hours using a wetsuit and flippers to the south. In the process of’flipper defection’, where the boundary network between our sea and land was opened one after another, Mr. A was captured by the military’s surveillance equipment four times, but the military recruited A’s recruit at around 7:20 am on the 16th, 6 hours after the initial detection. Secured. A hole in the boundary system on land and sea, such as surveillance equipment, guard service, and facilities, was sequentially created, leaving the Eastern Front open. In this area under the jurisdiction of the 22nd Army Division,’knock defection’ in 2012,’iron fence defection’ in November last year, and’dipper defection’ occurred in succession. It is predicted that censure against the relevant military leadership will continue.

In summary, on the 17th, the time when Mr. A was first caught on the military closed circuit (CC) TV was around 1:20 am on the 16th. It is three hours before the time when the military announced that it first recognized Mr. A’s Namha on the 16th at the Civil Control Line checkpoint CCTV (around 4:20 am). After swimming in the sea to South Korea, he landed about 3km from the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) and took off his wetsuit and flippers near the Unification Observation Deck of Goseong-gun at the time.

Military authorities are aware that the appearance of Mr. A swimming in coastal surveillance assets such as thermal imaging equipment (TOD) has not been detected. Mr. A, who escaped the coastal border and landed on land, passed through the drainage passage at the bottom of the coastal railroad fence. At the time, the blocking facility for this drainage was damaged.

Then, for only 40 minutes before 2 am on the day, A was captured by military CCTV all three times, but the military authorities did not properly recognize it. After that, for more than two hours, Mr. A walked along National Route 7 and took virtually no countermeasures until he was caught by CCTV at a civil control line checkpoint about 5 km from MDL. Mr. A is reported to have worn a’Muguri wet suit’ worn by fishermen when collecting seafood over a jumper during the Vietnamese process, and then tightened the string to prevent water from seeping into the body. At that time, the water temperature in the East Sea was about 8 degrees Celsius. The military believes that Mr. A, who is in his twenties, swam for about 6 hours and moved south. Even after the military captured Mr. A by CCTV at the checkpoint around 4:20 am on the day, the Jindo dog’Hana’, the anti-invasion warning order, was issued after 6:30 am. At 7:20 am, Mr. A, arrested at the foot of the mountain, not even 500m from the checkpoint, is said to have been sleeping with fallen leaves on his body at the time. Defense Minister Seo Wook said at the National Assembly’s Defense Committee on the 17th that Mr. A “stated in the initial joint newspaper that he was a civilian.” After the capture of Mr. A, even though a commando was deployed, it took 3 hours to secure recruits for ordinary North Korean men, not North Korean troops.

As it turns out that Mr. A has passed the drainage channel that should have been blocked, there are criticisms that the maintenance of facilities such as the border drainage channel promised by the military after the North Korean defectors in Ganghwa Province in July last year had not been completed. Secretary Seo said, “I am sorry for causing disappointment to the people.”

Reporter Shin Shin-jin [email protected]