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Date : August 31, 2015
North Korean Authorities Purge Border Guards After Shooting Incident, Defections
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The North Korean authorities have recently set up a special inspection team and launched investigation over the officials and soldiers of the 25th brigade in the neighborghood of Yonbong 2 in Hyesan city of Yanggang province earlier this month, according to the source. 

More than 40 soldiers on the spot were arrested, following an incident earlier this year in which two of the guards crossed the border and killed two Chinese, generated a diplomatic dispute between North Korea and China, said Hee-yun Doh, a representative of the Seoul-based Citizens Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees, citing information from a local North Korean source.

The 25th Brigade is controlled by the Border Guard General Bureau in Pyongsung city, South Pyongan province, and this time its second battalion in Hyesan city and fifth battalion in Bochon County, Yanggang province, were subjected to an intensive inspection, he said.

In the meantime, 11 defectors were arrested in China after they crossed the Yalu River from the border area in Hyesan. Eight of the defectors from three different families who lived in Musan county, Hamgyong province, were deported back to North Korea after they were arrested in China.
After North Korean authorities discovered that their border guards assisted the defectors, they have launched a thorough inspection of the Boarder Guard troops, which makes defectors difficult to cross the river. 

[Source: Radio Free Asia]

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