By The Associated PressBUSAN, South Korea – A North Korean soldier claimed to have killed two of his officers before defecting to South Korea across their heavily armed border, a South Korean official said.
The defense ministry official said the defection took place about noon Saturday across the western section of the Demilitarized Zone.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The official declined to be identified because an interrogation of the soldier was still under way.
Defections across the Demilitarized Zone, a buffer zone dividing the two Koreas, are rare as the 155-mile land border is heavily armed and tightly guarded.
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