{"id":66303,"date":"2024-08-20T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/north-korea-soldier-defects-south-border-dmz"},"modified":"2024-08-20T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:41:34","slug":"north-korean-soldier-crosses-militarised-border-to-defect-to-south-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66303","title":{"rendered":"North Korean soldier crosses militarised border to defect to South \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean military says it is investigating but can\u2019t confirm the person\u2019s \u2018exact motivations and goals\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A North Korean has defected to South Korea by crossing the militarised border in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula, with Yonhap news agency reporting that the defector is a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul\u2019s military said on Tuesday it had picked up \u201cone suspected North Korean individual on the eastern front and handed them over to the relevant authorities\u201d. Yonhap news agency reported that the person was a staff sergeant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/north-korea-soldier-defects-south-border-dmz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean military says it is investigating but can\u2019t confirm the person\u2019s \u2018exact motivations and goals\u2019A North Korean has defected to South Korea by crossing the militarised border in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula, with Yonhap news agenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303\/revisions\/66304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}