Military lied about 4 North Korean infiltrators
Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo, second from left, speaks during a meeting of commanders of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines at the Defense Ministry in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on Wednesday. Jeong vowed to look into the maritime border surveillance system after a North Korean fishing boat crossed into South Korean waters undetected. [JANG JIN-YOUNG]
The South Korean military failed to detect a North Korean boat that freely sailed in its waters for four days - even after its crew moored in an eastern harbor and asked to use a phone, the JoongAng Ilbo learned Wednesday.
The military also faced fire for an obviously false initial announcement about how the wooden boat and its four crews were discovered in Samcheok Harbor in Gangwon on Saturday. After questioning, two of the crew defected to the South, while the other two returned to the North through the border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday.
“We questioned the four crew and they said they left Kyongsong in North Hamgyong on June 9,†a military official told the JoongAng Ilbo on Wednesday. Kyongsong is a county located south of Chongjin.
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2 defected, 2 went back to NK. Some security asks how this could have happened that their little wooden boat was able to seel into the harbor unfettered. Well, we in the US likely would have those same kinds of security problems if some power wished to exploit it but Russia and maybe Iran, Japan, Australia, all nations would likely be vulnerable to this.
