Sourced : Asia Times
South and North Korean soldiers avoided shooting at each other in a dangerous incident at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom on Monday involving a defecting North Korean soldier who was wounded by northern bullets as he was crossing to the South.
The incident took place at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that divides the two adversaries at a time when military tensions are unusually high due to an escalating nuclear crisis with Pyongyang.
South Korean police, in a separate incident, arrested an unidentified American on Monday for attempting to enter a restricted zone in a border area dividing the two nations in an apparent bid to enter North Korea, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
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