I was a bit surprised that the North Korean guards at the JSA did not try to go across the MDL and drag the defector back across and maybe that is what the Kim regime expected them to do as well:
North Korean border guards gather at the JSA after defection of one of their comrades.
North Korea suffered acute embarrassment on November 13 when a border guard fled first by jeep and then on foot across the joint security area (JSA) with South Korea.
The defector, identified only by his surname Oh, sped in a jeep towards the South before losing control and crashing into a ditch. He sprinted the final few metres as North Korea guards opened fire.
Now those border guards are believed to be taking the full force of Kim Jong-un’s fury for the incident – with all believed to have lost their positions.
Yonhap News, a Seoul-based news agency, believes all border guards have been replaced at the border in a huge security overhaul.
And they said an intelligence source had told them the guards were also in danger of cruel punishment at the hands of Kim’s security agents.
The unnamed source told the agency: “Signs were detected that North Korea has replaced all border security officials following the defection. [UK-Express]
You can read more at the link, but imagine some very senior Kim regime officials are displeased with this defection and people will be held accountable for letting it happen. In addition the soldier’s family will be held accountable as well for his defection and are probably already in a labor camp somewhere as punishment.
