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US Soldier detained in North Korea in apparent defection

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  • 18-07-2023 7:19pm
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    Rawr
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66233797

    Reports today of a US soldier sneaking into a DMZ tour group and then going across the border when he got the chance. He was then detained by the North Koreans. At the moment it’s looking like a defection since it is mentioned that the soldier was facing disciplinary action and was being taken to the airport to be shipped back when he managed to sneak off with a tour group.

    This story reminds me a lot of James Joseph Dresnok, who similarly was facing disciplinary action during his Korean posting in the 60’s and defected across the border to North Korea. He then lived out his life there, dying in 2016.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joseph_Dresnok?wprov=sfti1

    At least with Dresnok, I could understand that during the early Cold War, North Korea was just another communist dictatorship and as mad as his actions were, he may not have know any better.

    But in this day and age, any US soldier would surely know what kind of hell-hole North Korea truly is. Even if Pyongyang were to embrace this soldier, like they did with Dresnok, he would face a threadbare existence with an increasingly threadbare totalitarian state. It’s madness I feel.



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