WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Agent From North Seized in 2nd Incident
From Times Wire Reports
A week after a North Korean infiltrator was killed, police said they shot and captured a second North Korean 100 miles south of the border after a shootout that killed one police officer and wounded two others. Authorities said another infiltrator escaped. Police believed they had him surrounded and were waiting for daylight to resume the search in Puyo. The captured man, Kim Do Shik, 33, told police he slipped into South Korea in August but refused to answer other questions, officials said.
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