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South Korea’s minister of defense apologized to his country on Wednesday after the military failed to quickly apprehend yet another man crossing the border from North Korea.
The man — an apparent defector — is thought to have swum from North Korea through the East Sea for roughly six hours on Tuesday before emerging on the South Korean side of Gangwon province and traveling through a drain, according to defense minister Suh Wook, who spoke at the National Assembly on Wednesday.
Now, experts say that there’s plenty that South Korea can do to thwart threats at one of the most
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Jeongmin Kim is Executive Director at Korea Risk Group, based in Seoul. She covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.
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