Smashed armour worn by a French soldier blasted by a cannonball during the Battle of Waterloo has become an online hit after video of it was mocked for saying its wearer was merely 'wounded'.

A BRAVE soldier looked like a “human teabag ... Bullets hit Guardsman Ben Ralph, 20, in the back and side but he was saved by his body armour. Two more rounds lodged in his ammunition pouches ...

The video then shows the defecting soldier getting out from the driver’s side of the vehicle and starting to run. Four North Korean soldiers appear in frame near the vehicle. One falls to the ...

In pursuit, a North Korean soldier also runs across the border. He looks down and seems to realize what he has done. He turns around and dodges behind a building on the North Korean side.