{"id":1182866,"date":"2022-01-03T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1182866"},"modified":"2022-01-03T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:04:46","slug":"man-who-crossed-border-into-north-korea-believed-to-be-previous-defector-to-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-crossed-border-into-north-korea-believed-to-be-previous-defector-to-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Crossed Border Into North Korea Believed To Be Previous Defector To South"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-who-crossed-border-into-north-korea-believed-to-be-previous-defector-to-south%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1182866&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A man who is believed to be a previous defector from North Korea reportedly went across the South Korean border in order to return to the North over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/man-who-crossed-dmz-into-north-korea-is-a-previous-defector-11641212793\">reported<\/a> that late on Saturday, \u201cthe man climbed a tall barbed-wire fence along the inter-Korean eastern border, navigated the heavily fortified Korean demilitarized zone and entered North Korea at 10:40 p.m., Seoul\u2019s military said. South Korea\u2019s military first detected the man hours after he had already entered the DMZ and failed to stop him from fleeing to the North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/02\/asia\/north-korea-south-korea-border-crossing-intl\/index.html\">reported<\/a>, \u201cIn a statement Monday, the Defense Ministry said based on CCTV footage they presumed the man who made the rare crossing to the North on Sunday had first entered the South in November 2020. Relevant authorities were still verifying the facts, the ministry added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There was reportedly no proof that the man had been a North Korean spy, Seoul\u2019s military noted on Monday. \u201cHe worked as a cleaner and was likely struggling financially, it added,\u201d per the Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Journal added:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Seoul had sent a weekend message to Pyongyang seeking to ensure the safety of the border-crossing man. On Monday, North Korea acknowledged having received the message but didn\u2019t give a response on the status of the defector, Seoul\u2019s military said. The Kim regime\u2019s borders have remained sealed off throughout the pandemic over Covid-19 fears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN further reported that South Korea\u2019s Defense Ministry spokesman Boo Seung-chan said on Monday, \u201cWe sent a notice to North Korea to protect our people yesterday and there has been no response from North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There were \u201cno unusual movements of the North Korean military\u201d related to the occurrence on Sunday, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There have been past instances where defectors go back to North Korea after defecting to the south, however, \u201c[j]ust 30 North Korean defectors have gone back to North Korea between 2012 and 2020, according to South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry,\u201d per the Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Journal also reported that \u201c[n]early one of every five defectors have thought of returning to North Korea, mainly due to missing their hometown and family, according to a 2021 survey of more than 400 defectors by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, a Seoul-based nonprofit organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The North Korean regime is known for being incredibly restrictive and abusive toward its citizens, placing the power of dictators past and present over their wellbeing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last month, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-laughing-north-korea-bans-leisure-activities-alcohol-during-mourning-period-commemorating-kim-jong-ils-death\">reported<\/a> that \u201cNorth Korea has banned its citizens from laughing, consuming alcohol, or taking part in any leisure activities during a \u2018mourning period\u2019 commemorating the 10-year anniversary of former dictator Kim Jong Il\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe New York Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/17\/north-koreans-banned-from-laughing-as-country-mourns-kim-jong-ils-death\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that the ban is in effect for 11 days and that on December 17, the anniversary of Kim\u2019s death, citizens are banned from even grocery shopping,\u201d The Daily Wire noted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn the past many people who were caught drinking or being intoxicated during the mourning period were arrested and treated as ideological criminals. They were taken away and never seen again,\u201d a source told Radio Free Asia\u2019s Korean Service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEven if your family member dies during the mourning period, you are not allowed to cry out loud and the body must be taken out after it\u2019s over. People cannot even celebrate their own birthdays if they fall within the mourning period,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who is believed to be a previous defector from North Korea reportedly went across the South Korean border in order to return to the North over the weekend. The Wall Street Journal reported that late on Saturday, \u201cthe man climbed a tall barbed-wire fence along the inter-Korean eastern border, navigated the heavily fortified &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}