{"id":47383,"date":"2021-01-08T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T07:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47383"},"modified":"2021-01-07T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:44:19","slug":"border-guard-falls-through-ice-while-attempting-cross-river-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/border-guard-falls-through-ice-while-attempting-cross-river-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Border guard falls through ice while attempting to cross river with lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Musan County, North Hamgyong Province, a border guard recently stepped onto a frozen river to defect when the ice collapsed. He sank into the water and disappeared without a trace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Wednesday that on Dec. 20 &#8220;a soldier from the Musan County border patrol unit stepped onto the river during his working hours to run away with his lover when the ice shattered, and he was swept into the water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source stated that the border guard, who was in his early twenties, was in a relationship with a young girl who was still in high school. While worrying about the girl\u2019s life and job after graduation, the guard and his lover had decided to flee together. They were putting their plans into action when they met with this disastrous incident, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As most students in Musan County are assigned to the coal mines after they graduate, the girl, who would be graduating next year, had been worried about becoming a laborer in the coal mines in her difficult circumstances. At this, the girl and the border guard reportedly decided that it was better for them to defect than for the girl to suffer in a coal mine, and they decided to cross the river together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, on Dec. 20, the two headed towards the frozen river during the border guard\u2019s working hours. The girl, who was lighter, went first and checked the ice, and the border guard followed. However, as soon as his feet touched the ice, it split, and he was carried away into the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The girl stayed where she was, crying, but when he vanished and showed no signs of reappearing, she moved to a different location. Meanwhile, another border guard saw the hole in the ice, realized what had happened, and quickly contacted the guard post.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42799\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1.jpg\" alt=\"special patrols coronavirus outbreak smuggler mobile phones strict smuggler border\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A border patrol checkpoint in Pungso County, Ryanggang Province. This photo was taken in February 2019. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A border patrol unit was dispatched to the scene of the incident. They were searching the surrounding area thoroughly when they found the girl, who had been crying and climbing out of the river, and arrested her immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source explained that during the border patrol unit\u2019s interrogation of the girl, the background and circumstances of this incident emerged in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source told Daily NK that \u201cthe border patrol command was framing the incident so that they could avoid responsibility by saying that the border guard had been persuaded by the girl to cross the river and had fallen into the water and disappeared,\u201d and added that they were saying that \u201cthis border guard had usually been obedient to discipline and lived more uprightly than other guards,\u201d and they were \u201ccovering up for him by saying that the border guard had not been at fault.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the border patrol unit is reportedly making no effort to search for the border guard who fell into the river, and the source surmised that the corpse would be discovered somewhere once the weather grew warmer and the snow melted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Esther Ra<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Translation note: In the original version of this article in Korean, the source reports that the girl attends \uc911\ud559\uad50 (<em>junghakgyo<\/em>, literally &#8220;middle school&#8221;). In North Korea, \uc911\ud559\uad50 refers to both middle and high school, or \uace0\ub4f1\uc911\ud559\uad50.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%95%a0%ec%9d%b8%ea%b3%bc-%ed%83%88%eb%b6%81%ed%95%98%eb%a0%a4-%ea%b0%95-%ec%98%ac%eb%9d%bc%ec%84%a0-%ea%b5%ad%ea%b2%bd%ea%b2%bd%eb%b9%84%eb%8c%80%ec%9b%90-%ec%96%bc%ec%9d%8c%ea%b5%ac%eb%a9%8d\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Musan County, North Hamgyong Province, a border guard recently stepped onto a frozen river to defect when the ice collapsed. He sank into the water and disappeared without a trace. A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Wednesday that on Dec. 20 &#8220;a soldier from the Musan County border patrol unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":42799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Border guard falls through ice while attempting to cross river with lover - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/border-guard-falls-through-ice-while-attempting-cross-river-lover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border guard falls through ice while attempting to cross river with lover\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Musan County, North Hamgyong Province, a border guard recently stepped onto a frozen river to defect when the ice collapsed. 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