I guess he didn’t want to stick around for the Olympic torch relay in North Korea:

A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea through the inter-Korean border, marking the first defection by a military officer via the heavily-fortified border in 10 years, an official at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday.
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Between 1966-1970 what became known as the “Second Korean War” raged which saw soldiers stationed on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in regular contact with North Korean infiltrators probing US military defenses as well as trying to enter the country in order to establish a communist insurgency in the south. However sometimes the […]

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Deadly violence on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was not unknown prior to 1966, in fact 29 American soldiers had lost their lives serving on the DMZ in the 10 years prior. For example on July 29, 1963 two US soldiers were ambushed and killed while driving their Jeep near the demilitarized zone:

However, […]

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Here is an interesting documentary about Daeseong-dong village which lies on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone:

You will have to click on the link and visit the YouTube page since the film maker decided not to allow the video to be imbedded, but it is worth the time to check out.  Some interesting […]

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An old icon of the DMZ is being moved:
“It’s very sad to see this kind of history rot away in the DMZ,” said Han, 80. “But I’m very happy for what they are doing today.”
On Monday, a crane lifted the locomotive on to a flatbed truck and took it to Imjingak, where it will be […]

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Here is an interesting article in the Stars and Stripes about life at the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom:
It is a war zone littered with minefields and 160,000 yearly tourists.
It’s also where 38 soldiers with the 8th Army and under the United Nations Command Security Battalion/Joint Security Area work six days a week on a […]

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