Seoul: N. Koreans fired at soldier as he defected to South
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South Korea says North Korean soldiers shot at and injured a fellow soldier who was crossing a border village to defect to the South.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says in a statement the North Korean soldier was being taken to a hospital after crossing the border village of Panmunjom on Monday.
It's rare for a North Korean soldier to defect via Panmunjom and be shot by fellow North Korean soldiers.
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It wasn't known how serious the soldier's injury was.
About 30,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, but most of them travel through China.