North Korean defector Oh Chong Song doesn't blame comrades who shot him, he tells NBCNews.
, which came down on the other side of Japan. Analysts extrapolated that this rocket was theoretically capable of hitting the mainland United States.
According to South Korea, around 30,000 people have defected since the Korean War. As a soldier and the son of a general, Oh knew that his friends were lawfully allowed to shoot him if he tried to cross the border. "I was extremely terrified," he said."I watch this video once in a while and every time I see it, I realize the fact that I am alive is a miracle. Even I can't believe something like this happened. ... I can't believe it's me in the video."
"I was wearing a padded jacket and the bullet penetrated through here and came out this way," he said, showing the path the bullets took."Because of that penetration wound, the muscle there was blown apart and I could feel the warmth of the blood flowing underneath me. I still ran."United Nations Command / AFP - Getty Images file"I did think that I was going to die as I was lying there," he said.
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