{"id":40284,"date":"2022-01-03T23:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/man-who-crossed-into-north-korea-defected-to-south-in-2020"},"modified":"2022-01-03T23:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:05:56","slug":"man-who-crossed-into-north-korea-defected-to-south-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40284","title":{"rendered":"Man who crossed into North Korea \u2018defected to South in 2020\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul defence ministry says it is in the process of verifying facts about incident at the weekend<\/p>\n<p>A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/02\/south-korean-crosses-demilitarised-zone-in-rare-defection-to-north\">observed crossing the heavily fortified border<\/a> from South Korea into North Korea last week is believed to be a North Korean who previously defected to the South in 2020 in the same area, Seoul\u2019s defence ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said it carried out a search operation after detecting the person on Saturday on the eastern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/man-who-crossed-into-north-korea-defected-to-south-in-2020\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul defence ministry says it is in the process of verifying facts about incident at the weekendA man observed crossing the heavily fortified border from South Korea into North Korea last week is believed to be a North Korean who previously defected t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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":[40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/40284","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40285,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284\/revisions\/40285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}