{"id":74827,"date":"2025-10-19T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/19\/north-korean-soldier-defects-south-across-heavily-fortified-border"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:27:19","slug":"north-korean-soldier-defects-to-south-korea-across-heavily-fortified-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74827","title":{"rendered":"North Korean soldier defects to South Korea across heavily fortified border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldier\u2019s is first reported defection to South Korea across 248km militarised zone since August 2024<\/p>\n<p>A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals\u2019 heavily fortified border, South Korea\u2019s military has said.<\/p>\n<p>The military took custody of the soldier who crossed the central portion of the land border on Sunday, South Korea\u2019s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement. It said the soldier expressed a desire to resettle in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/19\/north-korean-soldier-defects-south-across-heavily-fortified-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldier\u2019s is first reported defection to South Korea across 248km militarised zone since August 2024A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals\u2019 heavily fortified border, South Korea\u2019s military has said.The military took custod&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-74827","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\/74827","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74830,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74827\/revisions\/74830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}