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| South Korean military police search a vehicle near a guard post at Ganseong-eup Village in Goseong-gun City, Gangwon Province, as they pursue a soldier on the run after shooting at his comrades near a general outpost at the inter-Korean border on Jun. 21, 2014. The military police believed the suspect was hiding near military camps inside the Civilian Control Line. / Korea Times file |
By Ko Dong-hwan
South Korean police on Monday stopped an American who tried to cross the Civilian Control Line near the inter-Korean border without a permit to enter North Korea.
The man, 58, who visited from Louisiana on Nov. 10, trespassed on the north side of the control line in the border city of Yeoncheon.
The man, whose name has been withheld, was stopped at about 9:55 a.m. after a Baekhak Village resident reported him to the Army about an hour earlier.
The Army's 28th Infantry Division stopped the American, who allegedly tried to enter the military state for political purposes.
A joint probe by police, the Army and the National Intelligence Service is under way.
The control line was established below the Demilitarized Zone bisecting the two Koreas from the west to the east in 1954 to protect the security of military facilities and operations.
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