A North Korean soldier, who made an extremely rare and dramatic defection to the South, was shot six times by his own side as he drove to the heavily guarded border and ran across under a hail of bullets.
The United States-led United Nations Command (UNC), which monitors the Panmunjom border truce village where the defection occurred on Monday, said the soldier had driven close to the heavily guarded, military demarcation line separating the two Koreas.
“He then exited the vehicle and continued fleeing south across the line as he was fired upon by soldiers from North Korea,” the UNC said in a statement.
