S Korea kills man swimming to North

[Jimbuna]

Not often this happens

South Korean troops have shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into the North, officials say.
Soldiers opened fire after the man jumped into the Imjin river and ignored repeated warnings to stop.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24105977

[Tchocky]

Aren't the countries mixed up? Crazy!

[Jimbuna]

My only take on it can be that he was a suspected spy.

[kranz]

My only take on it can be that he got tired of Starcraft.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

My only take on it can be that he was a suspected spy.

...or its general policy to shoot anyone trying to swim across just in case they are spies.

[Stealhead]

Perhaps so but it seems like a highly illogical way to infiltrate when more clandestine methods have been used by both sides for years.Of course it may be a general assumption that a person trying to cross should be prevented from doing so as on the other side they will be gladly waiting to take the person in more of course to gather any useful intel.

It would be much easier for the North to have a spy go to a third nation they would be acting as a refugee of course then from there they get into South Korea.The South Koreans of course have spies infiltrate the North i assume that they must be infiltrated along the coast above the DMZ and picked up again in the same manner.

[Packlife]

Idk I think the guy could of been a spy, not every spy is a good 1 remember the hot red headed Russian chick the US kicked out?? They figured her out in no time at all. Only reason I'd say he's a spy is this who in their right mind would want to flee to N Korea that's like west Germans hopping the Berlin wall trying to flee to East Germany.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Perhaps so but it seems like a highly illogical way to infiltrate when more clandestine methods have been used by both sides for years.Of course it may be a general assumption that a person trying to cross should be prevented from doing so as on the other side they will be gladly waiting to take the person in more of course to gather any useful intel.

It would be much easier for the North to have a spy go to a third nation they would be acting as a refugee of course then from there they get into South Korea.The South Koreans of course have spies infiltrate the North i assume that they must be infiltrated along the coast above the DMZ and picked up again in the same manner.

Stealhead, read it again. This is about man trying to swim from South Korea to North Korea - not other way around. Also he was shot by South Korean soldier.