Report Claims North Korean Soldier Killed Seven Platoon Members

A horrible mass shooting has allegedly occurred at a North Korean town along the Chinese border:

A young North Korean man conscripted to guard a customs post on his country’s border with China in under arrest for shooting dead seven platoon members who had angered him with bullying treatment, RFA’s Korean Service has learned.

After the shootings at dawn on Jan. 7 at Hyesan, a city in North Korea’s northern Yanggang province, the young conscript was arrested and taken to Pyongyang, sources familiar with the shooting told RFA.

“The suspect and one platoon member who survived the shooting were transported to State Security headquarters in Pyongyang. There is no way to find out the exact cause of this incident, since the Yanggang authorities are trying to keep everyone’s mouth shut,” one source said on Jan. 14.

A second source, however, said the shooter apparently snapped after suffering bullying from his colleagues.  [Radio Free Asia]

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