South Korean troops fail to spot border defector

South Korea’s defence chief has had to apologise after troops failed to spot a North Korean soldier defecting across their heavily guarded border.

South Korean troops fail to spot border defector

South Korea’s defence chief has had to apologise after troops failed to spot a North Korean soldier defecting across their heavily guarded border.

No one spotted the soldier – even though he scaled barbed wire fences on the South Korean side of the border – until he knocked on the door of front-line South Korean barracks.

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