A defector was arrested last Tuesday after crossing the border from North Korea into South Korea’s Gangwon Province. The South Korean army released an investigation report on Tuesday, revealing that the subject had entered the CCTV camera range 10 times, but the military failed to detect eight of them in Time, revealing the gap in border security.
The defector entered the country by water, abandoned his diving suit and flippers after disembarking, and then went south along the drainage channel. He was caught on CCTV cameras five times between 1:05 a.m. and 38 a.m. that day, and an alarm was sounded twice in the Korean Army’s surveillance room, but the border guards judged it to be a false alarm and took no action. Subsequently, between 4:12 a.m. and 14:00 a.m., the Navy spotted his whereabouts three times, but the alarm did not sound and the guardhouse personnel did not notice anything unusual.
It was not until 4:16 a.m., when the subject was photographed twice at the civilian control line checkpoint, that the officers on duty noticed the anomaly, a delay of more than three hours. It was 31 minutes after the anomaly was detected that the situation was reported to the authorities through the high-speed information sharing system. The military was present afterwards to investigate and found three drains that were not included in the force’s management, indicating that the military had not exactly implemented last year’s order to conduct a full drainage survey.
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