Brian H. Hook

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Images from surveillance cameras of a North Korean soldier defecting to South Korea, shown at a news briefing in Seoul. Credit Jung Yeon-Je/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Earlier this month at the National Assembly in Seoul, President Trump highlighted the tragic tale of the “two Koreas” — one free, just and peaceful, the other tyrannical, oppressive and dangerous. This contrast is at the root of America’s most urgent national security challenge. It is also now on vivid display in a South Korean hospital, where doctors are working to save a wounded and malnourished North Korean soldier who defected last week from Kim Jong-un’s slave state.

The defector, whose full name is still not publicly known, risked his life by speeding across the Demilitarized Zone in a jeep, then dashing across the heavily guarded border at Panmunjon.…  Seguir leyendo »