After taking a 10-foot leap of faith earlier this month, a North Korean man who seeks to escape his homeland passed did a seemingly impossible jumped over the noses of the soldiers put him to safety in South Korea, where he revealed he wanted to defect.
Full ArticleNorth Korean Gymnast Defector Hops Over Border Fence to South
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