American man detained at the border after trying to defect to North Korea
South Korean authorities arrested a 58-year-old man trying to cross the demilitarized border zone to defect into North Korea, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The man, who hails from Louisiana, tried to defect "for political reasons," authorities told The Post. Coincidentally, on the same day as the US man failed to make his political statement, a North Korean soldier was shot twice by his own military as he ran through the DMZ so he could defect into South Korea.
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