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General ousted for security failure that allowed North Korean to defect through drainage pipe


By JOSEPH DITZLER AND YOO KYONG CHANG | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 4, 2021
A South Korean major general has been relieved of his command after his troops failed to quickly apprehend a North Korean defector who crawled into the country last month through a seaside drainage pipe, the defense ministry said Thursday.
Several times, surveillance cameras spotted the intruder, who swam across the border in chilly East Sea waters wearing a dive suit. But guard troops of the 22nd Infantry Division failed to notice, according to earlier accounts from the Ministry of National Defense.
Troops took the man into custody at 7:20 a.m. Feb. 16, six hours after he entered the country and three hours after guards finally spotted him on camera at 4:16 a.m. He was captured inside the civilian control line, a six-mile-wide swathe south of the Demilitarized Zone that the military keeps secure. ....

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