A woman wearing a North Korean badge has been found dead near a river by the inter-Korean border, NK News confirmed on Monday, at least the fourth body suspected of floating into South Korea from the North in recent weeks.

A South Korean passerby found and reported the body at around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday in a grassland next to the Imjin River near Gunnam Dam, the officer in charge of the case at Yeoncheon Police Station told NK News by phone.

The badge on the body featured portraits of former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong