http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091027/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_korea_north_defect

South Korean "defects" to communist North

Tue Oct 27, 4:32 am ET

SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean man who worked at Samsung Electronics' semiconductor unit and more recently at a pig farm has defected to the communist North by walking across the heavily mined border, the North's state media said on Tuesday.

Crossings are rare through the razor-wire and land-mined Demilitarised Zone buffer that divides the peninsula. But defections to the impoverished North from the affluent South are even rarer, with the last one likely taking place about four years ago.

The rival Koreas remain technically at war because they never replaced the armistice ending their 1950-53 conflict with a peace treaty.

"He is beside himself with joy for having accomplished this heroic deed," the North's KCNA news agency said. It identified the defector as Kang Dong-rim, 30.

South Korea's military and spy agency could not immediately confirm the report.

"He is now under the warm care of a relevant organ," KCNA said.

Since 2006, more than 2,000 North Koreans a year have defected to the South after crossing the longer and less perilous border with China. More than 16,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since 1953.

In 2005, KCNA said a man sailed through a volley of bullets to defect to the North. The South's military said at the time his family suspected he was drunk.

(Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Jon Herskovitz and Nick Macfie)



Well.... If the last line of the article is true, then I suspect that the drunken escapades that we see in Korean dramas aren't really that far fetched. It looks like Koreans really do all sorts of crazy stuff when they get drunk

BG wrote:

"He is now under the warm care of a relevant organ," KCNA said.

When I read those words, the image that immediately came to mind was this: the relevant "organ" is a giant colon in the shape of North Korea, and the "warmth" comes from the excrement that said organ dumps upon its people on a daily basis.

Many times, people do crazy things. Some jump from a skycraper or bridge. Some blow their brains out. Some slit their wrists. Some jump in front of a moving train. And some defect to North Korea.



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