Escape from North Korea: Video Shows North Korean Soldier Making a Run for Freedom (Video)
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Dramatic footage has emerged showing a North Korean military defector fleeing across the border to South Korea as he is pursued and shot at by his compatriots before being hauled to safety by troops from the other side, The Guardian reports.
The video, released on Wednesday by the UN command in the South, shows the soldier, who defected last week, racing towards the border village of Panmunjom in a military vehicle before crashing it and continuing his escape on foot.
The video shows the man collapsed on the ground after being shot just south of the demilitarised zone [DMZ].
Later three members of South Korea’s security battalion security forces crawl to the wounded defector and drag him away to safety.
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