After details emerged earlier this week of a North Korean army deserter who swam across the Tumen River separating the DPRK from China, shooting and beating to death four villagers before being caught by Chinese police, another similar case has just come into the spotlight.
In the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region of Jilin Province, a local government official in Nanping Village, where the murders took place, told The Beijing News earlier today that "on September third last year [2014], a North Korean killed a family of three in the village."
Not only that, he also revealed that "North Koreans often come over to steal things."
Mr. Yong, a relative of the deceased, contacted The Beijing News this morning to describe the terrifying ordeal when, in the early hours of the morning of September 3, his father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law were all murdered by a defector from across the border.
The attacker pried upon a window and snuck into the house at around 1am, using a hammer he found there to kill first Yong's brother-in-law, a 26-year-old taxi driver, and then his father-in-law, Li Chunfeng, aged 64, and his 60-year-old mother-in-law.
Yong later learned from police that the killer was a 26-year-old North Korean. Police told Yong that the man, about 1.6 meters tall, was "not militarily, an ordinary person."
On September 20, police handed over to the family two mobile phones, RMB500 in cash, and a handbag that the attacker had killed for. As he was returning to DPRK shores, North Korean border patrol guards apprehended him and sent the stolen goods back. The funeral arrangements for the deceased were paid for by their local government.
"They [North Koreans] frequently come over," Yong describes, "they want food and money.... they bring lethal weapons, no one would dare not give it to them."
According to another local resident surnamed Li, local homes are all small bungalows and young residents leave to look for work outside the village, leaving only the elderly and young children.
Yong says that villagers are anxious and "everyone who can, moves."
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