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SEOUL—A North Korean defected to the South by walking across the heavily fortified border that separates the peninsula, Seoul’s military said Tuesday.
On Tuesday Seoul’s military said it picked up “one suspected North Korean individual on the eastern front and handed them over to the relevant authorities”. But, after border controls eased in 2023, the number of defections rose — with 196 making it to the South last year. The latest defections come as relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, with the North ramping up weapons testing and bombarding the South with trash-carrying balloons.
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