{"id":28866,"date":"2021-02-24T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/24\/north-korea-defector-border-unnoticed-security"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T05:10:51","slug":"north-korean-defector-spends-six-hours-walking-around-heavily-guarded-border-unnoticed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28866","title":{"rendered":"North Korean defector spends six hours walking around heavily guarded border unnoticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassment for South Korea\u2019s military after guards fail to heed alarms despite man being picked up by five sets of CCTV cameras<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s military is facing criticism over security lapses along the country\u2019s heavily armed border with North Korea after a man was able to cross into the South despite being spotted multiple times by surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The man, wearing a wetsuit and flippers, reportedly swam to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> in the early hours of 16 February, but evaded capture for more than six hours, according to the Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/24\/north-korea-defector-border-unnoticed-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassment for South Korea\u2019s military after guards fail to heed alarms despite man being picked up by five sets of CCTV camerasSouth Korea\u2019s military is facing criticism over security lapses along the country\u2019s heavily armed border with North Korea &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28868,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866\/revisions\/28868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}