TOKYO: The North Korean soldier who defected to the South in a hail of bullets last year is a general's son but says most Northerners of his age have no loyalty to Kim Jong Un, according to a Japanese newspaper.

Oh Chong Song's dramatic dash across the border at the Panmunjom truce village in the Demilitarized Zone—under fire from his comrades—made global headlines last year, and saw him hospitalized with serious injuries.

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