The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of the military demarcation line and conducted a “guiding operation” before taking the person into custody Thursday night.

South Korea's military said Friday it has taken into custody a North Korean individual who crossed the inter-Korean land border the previous day. The individual crossed the Military Demarcation Line in the western part of the central front of the border Thursday night,

The mission to safely guide the man to the South involved a considerable number of South Korean troops and took around 20 hours