Manhunt in China for Group of North Korean Soldiers Who Committed Armed Robbery
Here we go again with another group of North Korean soldiers pillaging a Chinese town. This is not the first time this has happened and likely won’t be the last:
Five North Korean soldiers who deserted their posts with weapons engaged in a shootout with Chinese authorities on Thursday after armed robberies in Jilin Province, according to diplomatic sources.
The soldiers entered China through Hyesan city in North Korea on July 23 and committed an armed robbery in Changbai Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province.
As the robbery spree intensified, the Chinese army and police formed a task force to catch the soldiers and a major shoot out ensued in a town inside the prefecture on Thursday.
Two of the soldiers were arrested but many of the Chinese were injured. Two Chinese police officers were rushed to a nearby hospital in a critical condition.
Chinese authorities have launched a manhunt for the three remaining soldiers.
“Authorities have issued a curfew to local residents until they arrest all the culprits,” a diplomatic source said. [Korea Times]
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Fortunately no one has been killed yet by these thugs unlike what happened in 2014 when a rampaging North Korean soldier killed four elderly Chinese citizens.
This is just the kind of crumbling of the NK military that is starting to take place as more and more soldiers are starving. According to one source I found, “Some [suffering from starvation] begin to have vivid hallucinations and suffer confusion, vertigo, and vivid dreams.” They already have a whacked out ideology to follow. How much of a stretch would it be to pervert that ideology into something much more severe that sanctions the killing of anyone who stands between them and food. It could be that this is what is happening to some front line troops.
@Tim, supposedly there has been a crackdown on border troops taking bribes to allow traders and refugees to cross. The bribes were what some of these troops were using to make ends meet.