Most local soldiers in their unit defected last week.
Mr. Ahn, a former member of a North Korean special operations military unit, defected to South Korea in the late 1990s, the Yonhap news service reported.
The military has not splintered, with conscripts rather than officers or whole units defecting, and the merchant and middle classes of Aleppo and Damascus have remained quiet.
From Herat in the west to Kabul in the east and Mazar-i-Sharif in the north, major cities fell only after key opposition units defected.
Libya's uprising became a shooting war as some military units defected to the rebels, and the international community stepped in, using NATO air power to protect Libyan civilians from state violence.
As insurgents surged across Mali's northern desert last year, United States-trained commanders of the country's elite army units defected at a critical time, taking troops, trucks, weapons and their newfound skills to the enemy.
In response to highly effective pro-Chetnik agitation from within, many Partisan units defected to the Chetniks.
For much of the past decade, as the New York Times recently recounted, American special operations forces trained Malian army units to defend the government -- until several of those units defected to join Islamist rebels.
The purpose of this study was to explore with μMRI at 9.4 T the morphological appearance of the normal osteochondral unit and defect repair in a preclinical large animal model.
But when you use the unit, the defects are glaring.
