A North Korean soldier defected to the South after crossing the heavily fortified border, a defence ministry spokesman said on Saturday, the second soldier to defect this month. “A North Korean soldier defected to one of our Guard Posts at around 9:30 p.m. on Friday at the middle section of the border,” the spokesman said, … Read more
A North Korean soldier escaped to South Korea Tuesday evening by walking across the Demilitarised Zone that bisects the peninsula, Seoul’s defence ministry said. The soldier, who has not been publicly identified, approached a South Korean border guard post and expressed a wish to defect, the ministry said in a statement. “We are holding him … Read more
A North Korean soldier escaped to South Korea Tuesday evening by walking across the Demilitarised Zone that bisects the peninsula, Seoul’s defence ministry said. The soldier, who has not been publicly identified, approached a South Korean border guard post and expressed a wish to defect, the ministry said in a statement. “We are holding him … Read more
A senior North Korean official on Wednesday ruled out any more reunions for family members separated decades ago by war unless 12 citizens from the reclusive state who ended up in South Korea are returned. The North says the 12 were kidnapped while the South says they defected voluntarily. The relatives separated by the conflict, … Read more
Latvian lawmakers Thursday voted to grant citizenship to renowned ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov, who defected to the United States while the Baltic state was occupied by the Soviet Union. Lawmakers voted 84 to zero in favour of handing the 69-year-old ballet legend a passport, which he will receive at a ceremony later in the day … Read more
Defections cut both ways. They are bound to make one party comfortable and another uncomfortable. And probably depending on the person defecting, the feeling may be that of indifference. Be it in literature or real life, the defector is always an interesting character. The defector is ostracised; criticised and simply labelled as a “betrayer” by … Read more