North Korean Soldier Who Defected Last Year Says His Generation Has No Loyalty To Kim Jong Un

Stars and Stripes/Washington Post: North Korean soldier who defected last year says he thought war with US was inevitable

Last November, North Korean soldier Oh Chong Song made a dash toward freedom through the Korean Peninsula's demilitarized zone. His fellow North Koreans fired at him, hitting him at least five times and leaving him fighting for his life. When doctors in the South treated the 25-year-old, they found more problems, including an infection of parasitic worms.

Despite all this, Oh survived. And this week, roughly a year after he escaped from the North, he gave his first interview to a foreign media publication. In it, the defector offered a grim picture of life inside North Korea and the factors that motivated him to escape.

"I really felt that we would have a war with the United States," Oh told the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, referring to the increase in tensions between Washington and Pyongyang during the year he escaped.

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