Witness describes the moment the U.S. soldier crossed into North Korea

A #NewZealand #tourist described the moment an #American #soldier ran across the heavily fortified #SouthKorean #border into #NorthKorea. #shorts

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[Jarpasaurus]

He must really hate plumbing, medicine, food and electricity if he ran to NK.

[steveyi]

We better not trade anything to save him

[terripebsworth]

We call that free will. He made his choice. So be it.

[mikefolkestad]

Forget about him leave him it was his choice. Now look at all the effort the US has to go to try and get him back.

[anonymouse]

Trying to avoid jail by running into a prison. 🤦‍♂️

[sherriefisher]

He must have done something seriously wrong to run to N.Korea for asylum 😂

[fransvangoolen]

This is his own stupidity..so leave him there..they have also prisons there..this is a lesson for him.

[rachelwang]

Civilization never fathom how cruel a dictatorship can be until experiencing it.

[Matildaaa]

i can tell this woman is the type of person who when somone gets hurt she says "i did tell you not to go there.🙄"

[thebeddoctor]

I dont understand the problem. Dude wanted to be in North Korea. Let him live his life. Who cares

[camille]

He defected. Obviously he has zero idea what he is running to.

[robertjensen]

Leave him. Forget about him. Don’t even say his name. Don’t give NK even a cent for him.

[montananerd]

Is it possible he was suicidal? There are loads of land mines in between the 2 countries. Its been theorized before that these cases are less politics and more mental health.

[ommanomnom]

Impossible to save him. He's on his own mission and all we can do is pray. Let's just hope he's a level 100 boss and is going on a solo mission to end Kim Jong un

[shades]

We just kept screaming at him to come back, bro legit had his hands in his ears going lalallalalalalala

[bleakvisions]

He couldn't resist the lure of North Korean cinema.

[CommeradeZhukov]

I accidentally traveled to north korea before along with an entire boat of tourists while we were traveling down the yalu river, a north korean patrol boat forced us to dock on the north korean side for a while and they searched the boat, after they finished they made us get back on board to go back to china. While i was there i really annoyed one of the officers because i kept asking him if i could at least get a passport stamp 😆

[ypcomchic]

I think he was going to be charged for something by the us military and that’s why he ran to NK.

[RobertEmery]

The phrase that pays is: "Out of the frying pan into the fire." lol

[rebeccaherrera]

Wow. No words. Somehow the brains on this guy were missing by pulling a stunt like that.