SEOUL: A North Korean has defected to the South across a de facto maritime border in the Yellow Sea, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Thursday (Aug 8). Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s. The latest defection comes as relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, with the North ramping up weapons testing and bombarding the South with trash-carrying balloons. "1 N Korean defects