A US citizen crossed into North Korea with out authorization and was taken into custody

Robert Collins

International Courant

It was confirmed by the United Nations. It occurred throughout a vacationer go to to the border space. Steps have been taken to resolve the incident.

The United Nations command stated Tuesday {that a} US citizen crossed the border from South Korea into neighboring North Korea.

The company, which oversees safety on the Korean peninsula, tweeted that the citizen was taking part in a go to to a Korean border village and crossed into the North with out authorization.

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The JSA has been the scene of defections previously, though they’ve nearly all the time concerned folks making an attempt to cross into South Korea.

In 2017, a North Korean soldier led a spectacular escape wherein his companions hit him with a number of photographs, though he survived.

In 1984 a scholar from the now non-existent Soviet Union crossed into the South throughout a vacationer go to, which led to a tragic alternate of fireplace between troops that ended with the deaths of three North Korean troopers, one South Korean and one from the UN Command.

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