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Woman wearing North Korean badge found dead near inter-Korean border: ROK police

Portraits of Kim leaders suggest body floated to South Korea from DPRK, fourth such suspected case this summer

A woman wearing a North Korean badge has been found dead near a river by the inter-Korean border, NK News confirmed on Monday, at least the fourth body suspected of floating into South Korea from the North in recent weeks.

A South Korean passerby found and reported the body at around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday in a grassland next to the Imjin River near Gunnam Dam, the officer in charge of the case at Yeoncheon Police Station told NK News by phone.

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