Don Surber Asks Is North Korea Collapsing?

Don Surber: Is North Korea collapsing?

A North Korean soldier walked away from North Korea through the DMZ on Thursday morning (Wednesday night in the United States).

No shots were fired.

No one tried to stop him.

Is this the moment we have waited for?

Is North Korea about to collapse?

I ask this because it seems like Kim Jong-un’s most elite troops — the ones he places along the border with South Korea — no longer protect that border.

If the North Korean people figure that out, they will start walking south by the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands.

We saw that happen in 1989 when East Germans began crossing the Austro-Hungarian border to freedom unmolested.

Two years later, the Soviet Union — which had survived World War II — was no more.

From the Daily Mail:

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea early on Thursday, a South Korean defence ministry official said. 

The low-ranking North Korean soldier defected across the heavily militarized border between North and South Korea at around 8:04 am and no shots were fired, the official said.

Yonhap reports the man’s intentions are being investigated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

This is the second known defection from the North in about five weeks. 

Another North Korean soldier, Oh Chong Song, 24, suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border on November 13.

He was shot in his knee, arm, back, chest and through his shoulder and surgeons also found that his body was riddled with parasites and Hepatitis B. 

But despite his serious injuries, surgeons saved his life and when he woke up at the Ajou University Hospital in South Korea, he told doctors he was craving a Choco Pie.

A Choco Pie is like a MoonPie.

I hope North Korea ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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