SEOUL (Reuters) - The North Korean soldier who was shot while defecting to South Korea on Monday suffered massive internal damage, the surgeon leading his treatment said on Wednesday.
"I've never seen such injuries outside of a textbook in more than 20 years of my career," Lee Cook-jong, the surgeon in charge of the soldier, said at a media briefing.
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