North Korea Plants Land Mines To Stop Soldiers from Defecting

I am sure the Kim regime is under intense pressure from China considering how North Korean soldiers have crossed the border and murdered Chinese citizens:

North Korea has been planting anti-personnel mines alongside the inter-Korean border for the past couple of months to prevent North Korean soldiers from fleeing to South Korea, a South Korean official said Sunday.

“Under the order of leader Kim Jong-un, the military has gone all-out to prevent soldiers from going AWOL across the North Korea-China border,” the official said, adding the deployment of land mines near the inter-Korean border seems to serve a similar purpose.

Last October, the two Koreas exchanged fire after troops from the communist country drew near the border. No one was hurt.

A month later, a North Korean patrol approached the land border again, prompting warning shots from South Korean troops.  [Yonhap]

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