North Korea Violates Armistice in Chasing Defector – UN Command

Tokyo, MINA – The UN Command announced Wednesday that North Korea clearly violated the 1953 Armistice Agreement twice last week, when its border security guards tried to hunt down a fellow soldier defecting to South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The command released video clips lasting a total of around seven minutes showing the incident that happened at the Joint Security Area of the truce village of Panmunjom on November 13.

The defector was shot five times, with some of the gunshots flying over the Military Demarcation Line.

A North Korean guard also crossed the line for a few seconds. The command stressed that the North Korean troops’ acts were in breach of the Armistice Agreement that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.

“The key findings of the special investigation team are that the Korean People’s Army violated the Armistice Agreement by one, firing weapons across the Military Demarcation Line, and two, by actually crossing the line temporarily,” US Army Colonel Chad Carroll, who serves as UN Command’s public affairs chief, said at a briefing in Seoul.

The command notified the North’s military of the violations earlier in the day and requested a meeting to discuss the issue. (T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Ageny (MINA)