Pyongyang, Dec 15 (ANI): Some armed North Korean soldiers tasked with the responsibility of preventing defections, have reportedly fled to China.
Daily NK, a Seoul-based online newspaper run by North Korean defectors, said the six border patrol agents crossed the Yalu River around November 20.
"Eight crossed the river at night but two of them were shot dead by other (North Korean) border agents and only six managed to run away," the newspaper quoted a source in the Chinese border city of Dandong, as saying.
According to the Telegraph, Seoul's intelligence agency is verifying the truth of the report.
Meanwhile armed Chinese soldiers and North Korean intelligence officials have been sent to Dandong to strengthen security checks at train stations and in areas that have a large ethnic Korean population.
About 21,700 North Koreans have fled their impoverished and hunger-stricken homeland since the 1950-1953 war, the vast majority in recent years. But defections by soldiers are rare.
The latest incident has sparked off a security alert on the North-Korean Chinese border. (ANI)
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