N. Korean soldier defects to S. Korea via land border

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea through the land border on Thursday morning, and the South's military later fired some 20 warning shots at North Korean border guards who were apparently searching for the defector, a South Korean military official said.The low-ranking soldier appeared in front of a guard post on the mid-western front of the border between the two countries at around 8:04 a.m. amid thick fog, according to the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff.The area is in the northern part of Gyeonggi Province in the South.The South Korean side fired the warning shots roughly 90 …READ FULL ARTICLE