For the longest time, it seemed as if (nearly) every story we heard about alleged unauthorized border crossings on the Korean Peninsula had one thing in common. They involved people from North Korea making a break for it and attempting to seek refugee in South Korea, an American ally. But recently, we’ve seen a handful of stories where the opposite turned out to be true. There was an American soldier who illegally crossed over to the North, though he was later released and charged with desertion. Now another, similarly curious report has come to us from the same region. A person described as a “North Korean defector” stole a bus earlier this week and rammed into a barricade separating the two countries. The man was detained, with few other details being provided by authorities. But this raises the question of why anyone would want to break into North Korea. (NBC News)
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