>>NEW VIDEO SHOWS A NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR WHO MANAGED TO ESCAPE,
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SHOT FIVE TIMES IN THE PROCESS OF DOING
SO.
THIS WAS A 24-YEAR-OLD MEMBER OF THE NORTH KOREAN
MILITARY, AND HE DID DEFECT, HE DID MANAGE TO CROSS OVER TO
SOUTH KOREA, AND HE IS RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE MOMENT.
HE IS EXPECTED TO SURVIVE.
BUT THE STORY IS INSANE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TAKE A
LOOK AT THE VIDEO, TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THAT.
>>YOU SEE THE NORTH KOREAN MILITARY JEEP SPEEDING PAST
CHECKPOINTS, HEADING TOWARDS THE BORDER WITH SOUTH KOREA.
INSIDE,
THE SOLDIER BENT ON DEFECTING.
AS HE GETS CLOSER TO THE
DEMILITARIZED ZONE NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS REACTING FROM THERE
POST, SCRAMBLING TOWARDS THE VEHICLE.
ONCE THE JEEP CRASHES
INTO A DITCH NEAR THE LINE THAT DIVIDES THE TWO NATIONS, HE SETS
OUT ON FOOT, RUNNING, AS THE NORTH KOREAN GUARDS BEGIN
SHOOTING.
DOZENS OF ROUNDS FIRED AT THE DEFECTOR, EVEN AS HE
CROSSES THAT CRUCIAL LINE TO FREEDOM.
>>AT SOME POINT THE NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS SEE HIM AND SEE WHAT
HE'S DOING, THEY START FIRING AT HIM, MULTIPLE ROUNDS, AND
HITTING HIM, AND HE STILL SURVIVES ENOUGH TO CRAWL TO
SAFETY, TO GET BEHIND THE WALL.
>>CRITICALLY WOUNDED, SHOT FIVE OR SIX TIMES, HEAT SIGNATURE
FROM CAMERAS SHOW TWO SOUTH KOREAN SECURITY FORCES CRAWLING
TOWARDS THE DEFECTOR TO CARRY HIM OUT AND EVACUATE HIM TO
A NEARBY MEDICAL CENTER.
>>THAT IS GREAT FOOTAGE, AND A GREAT REPORT BY ABC, CHECK OUT
THE LINK DOWN BELOW FOR THE WHOLE REPORT.
LOOK, THAT IS THE
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
THAT WAS AMAZING.
HE TOOK FIVE BULLETS
FOR FREEDOM.
A DAY LATER THEY FLEW HIM TO A HOSPITAL DOWN PAST
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA AND REMOVED FIVE BULLETS FROM HIS BODY.
>>THEY DID, AND TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW MANY
TIMES THEY SHOT AT HIM, ACCORDING TO REPORTS THE
SOLDIERS FIRED AT HIM ABOUT 40 TIMES, HITTING HIM WITH BULLETS
FROM BOTH PISTOLS AND AN AK-47.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE WAS
THE DEMILITARIZED SONG THAT HE CROSSED INTO, AND AT THAT POINT,
THE NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS BASED ON A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE SHOOTING AT HIM, BUT THEY DID SO ANYWAY.
NOW
THERE IS AN ARGUMENT THAT THEY VIOLATED THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, I DON'T THINK NORTH KOREA CARES AT
ALL.
>>IF YOU START FIRING INTO THAT ZONE YOU ARE REALLY RISKING
WAR, AND THEY DID FIRE INTO THAT ZONE, WHICH THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED
TO DO, AND THEY PHYSICALLY CROSSED OVER AS WELL.
NORTH
KOREA HAS A LOT OF BLUSTER AND THEY DO A LOT OF MISSILE TESTS,
BUT GENERALLY THEY DON'T CROSS THAT ZONE.
IF THEY DO THEN
OBVIOUSLY SOUTH KOREA WILL CROSS IT BACK AND WE ARE BACK IN THE
MIDDLE OF A WAR.
IT WAS A DANGEROUS MOMENT THERE, BUT I
THINK THAT WHAT THEY FOUND IN THE SOLDIER OTHER THAN THE
BULLETS IS, IN SOME WAYS, MORE AMAZING.
>>IT IS INSANE.
>>IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING
INSIDE NORTH KOREA --
>>AND THE PHOTO I'M ABOUT TO
SHOW YOU IS OF THE PARASITIC
WORMS SO IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT I WANT
TO GIVE THAT WARNING, BUT WITH THAT SAID, HERE IS A PHOTO OF
WHAT THE DOCTORS PULLED OUT OF HIS INTESTINES.
THEY ALSO FOUND
OUT THAT HE IS SUFFERING FROM HEPATITIS, IT'S A FORM OF
HEPATITIS THAT USUALLY SPREADS FROM UNSANITARY HOSPITALS
AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
>>WHEN THEY WE USE SYRINGES THEY SHOULDN'T USE, NEEDLES,
ETC.
IT TURNS OUT THAT A SHOCKING PERCENTAGE OF NORTH
KOREAN DEFECTORS HAVE PARASITIC WORMS IN THEIR BODY.
PART OF THE
REASON IS THEY USE HUMAN MANURE FOR FARMING, WHICH YOU AREN'T
SUPPOSED TO DO.
AND THERE IS EASY THINGS YOU CAN DO TO AVOID
THESE WORMS, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY, THEY HAVE NOTHING.
IN
ONE CASE THEY DID A STUDY OF NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS, AND OF
THE WOMEN THEY STUDIED, I THINK IT WAS ALL WOMEN, SEVEN OUT OF
THE 17 HAD WORMS IN THEIR BODIES, AND ABOUT 10% OF THE
DEFECTORS SO FAR HAVE HEPATITIS B. IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T TAKE
NORMAL PRECAUTIONS THAT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD YOU WOULD
TAKE, BECAUSE NORTH KOREA IS BASICALLY ONE GIANT
CONCENTRATION.
THERE'S 25 MILLION PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN
NORTH KOREA, THEY ARE HOSTAGES TO KIM JONG-UN AND THE RULING
CLASS IN NORTH KOREA.
PEOPLE LIKE THIS -- HIS LAST NAME IS
OH, WE DON'T KNOW HIS FIRST NAME, WE KNOW IT ISN'T STEVE --
PEOPLE LIKE HIM ARE WILLING TO WHISK THEIR LIVES TO GET OUT OF
THIS HELLHOLE.
NORTH KOREA IS ONE OF THE MOST INTRACTABLE
PROBLEMS ON THE PLANET, YOU ARE DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU
DON'T.
IF YOU START HOSTILITIES WITH THEM THEY CAN LAUNCH OTHER
MISSILES AND KILL MILLIONS AT A BARE MINIMUM IN SOUTH KOREA, LET
ALONE THE 25 MILLION WHO WILL GET HURT WHEN SOUTH KOREA,
JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES COUNTERSTRIKE.
AND KILLING NORTH
KOREANS -- LINDSAY GRAHAM RECENTLY FLIPPANTLY TALKED ABOUT
IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
NO, YOU ARE KILLING PEOPLE IN A
CONCENTRATION CAMP.
BOMBING THE NORTH KOREANS IS TERRIBLE.
ON
THE OTHER HAND, THEY HAVE ENSLAVED THESE PEOPLE FOR
DECADES.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SUFFERING UNDER UNIMAGINABLE
CIRCUMSTANCES.
I LOVE TO DO CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUES, NOT JUST
BLINDLY SAY THAT PERSON IS BAD OR THAT SITUATION IS TERRIBLE,
AND NOT GIVE YOU AN ANSWER -- BUT NORTH KOREA IS A VERY
DIFFICULT SITUATION WITH NOT A LOT OF GREAT ANSWERS.
I KNOW
THAT WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER, I THINK THE ANSWER IS TO APPLY
EVERY KIND OF DIPLOMACY WE CAN TO CHINA, WHICH IS THE ONLY
COUNTRY BASICALLY PROPPING UP THE NORTH KOREAN REGIME.
AND BY
HOOK OR BY CROOK WE NEED TO GET CHINA TO AGREE WITH US TO
SOMEHOW, WITHOUT HAVING THE NORTH KOREANS LAUNCH, TAKE OUT
THE LEADERSHIP AND FREE THOSE PEOPLE.
BUT IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT PROBLEM.