SKorea questions North Korean over reported crossing of sea border
By Kwang-tae Kim, APWednesday, June 23, 2010
SKorea questions NKorean over reported crossing
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says investigators are questioning a North Korean who reportedly crossed the sea border into South Korea.
A Defense Ministry spokesman declined to give further details Thursday and would not be named as the probe was under way.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited an unidentified government source as saying the North Korean crossed the western sea border in a small boat earlier Thursday.
South Korea’s top spy agency said it could not immediately confirm it.
Another North Korean fled to South Korea by boat earlier this month.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry says more than 18,000 North Koreans have arrived in the South since the Korean War ended with a 1953 cease-fire.
