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TIL about the soldier who defected from North Korea in 2017. Meet Oh Chong-song. He made his escape by car, but had to ditch it and run after he crashed it at the Demarcation Line. He sustained five gunshot wounds and survived to tell the tale when he got airlifted to a nearby hospital.

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