Guards from the Korean People’s Army (KPA) yesterday fired 40 bullets at a North Korean soldier who defected at the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a meeting of the National Assembly’s defense committee, a senior military officer said the South Korean side had observed three North Korean soldiers moving from the East to the West at Panmungak at 1514 KST on Monday.

They then saw the North Korean soldier abandon a moving jeep near a DPRK guard post and run across the military demarcation line (MDL) which separates the two