South Korea’s military says an unidentified person has crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea
Earlier in 2020, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed a border city under total lockdown after a North Korean defector with COVID-19-like symptoms sneaked back home. The fate of that defector, who had lived in South Korea, is not known.
The two Koreas are split along the world’s most heavily armed border, called the Demilitarized Zone. An estimated 2 million mines are peppered inside and near the 248-kilometer -long, 4-kilometer -wide DMZ, which is also guarded by barbed wire fences, tank traps and combat troops on both sides.
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