On a frigid New Year’s Day evening, an unidentified person avoided South Korean troops, traversed the heavily fortified Korean demilitarized zone and entered North Korea, Seoul’s military said.
SEOUL—
The person climbed a tall barbed-wire fence at the eastern part of the inter-Korean border around 6:40 p.m. local time Saturday night, Seoul’s military later discovered. The first detection came at 9:20 p.m., as the individual was spotted in the DMZ that divides the two Koreas. The person eventually entered North Korea at 10:40 p.m., Seoul’s military said.
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