North Korean soldier DEFECTS to South Korea as Kim Jong-un's regime hits 'breaking point'
A NORTH Korean soldier has dramatically defected across the border into South Korea, it has been confirmed.
A North Korean soldier has defected to the South by crossing the demilitarised zone
The soldier crossed the heavily guarded “demilitarised zone” dividing South Korea and Kim Jong-un’s hermit state.
South Korean officials confirmed the soldier’s defection today and the man becomes the latest in a string of recent defections, defying threats from the despotic North Korean leader that they will face a “pre-emptive, consecutive attack on them in a more deadly and severe punishment without any warning and prior notice”.
It comes after a senior official at North Korea’s London embassy also defected in August, saying he was “sick and tired of the Kim Jong-un regime”.
Thae Yong Ho vanished with his wife and children from the Ealing embassy, claiming to be craving a more liberal existence and saying Kim Jong-un’s regime was “at breaking point” with many senior figures also on the brink of defection.
Thae Yong Ho defected from North Korea's London embassy in August
The demilitarised zone lies on the border of North & South Korea and is actually heavily militarised
In April, a senior colonel with the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau, which is in charge of espionage operations against South Korea, handed himself over to the southern state.
The Reconnaissance General Bureau conducts covert operations in a bid to prevent North Koreans fleeing oppression, starvation and brutality in their home nation.