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yeah. erik, mara gay from the new york times . we know little about what happened in this case, but what do you think of the border with north korea? the cold war ended years ago, but help us contextualize what may have happened here and what the incentives are with the governments involved here. first of all, north korea is interesting because this is one of the last countries that prevents the exit of its citizens. when we think about defection, most of the people are fleeing north korea. but there are a few cases of people fleeing the other way. the dmz is really the cease-fire zone of the armistice of the korean war 70 years ago. it is highly militarized. there have been a few cases of people fleeing into north korea. several u.s. soldiers, a handful, really, since 1953 who have fled for a variety of reasons. some were disenchanted with ....
Their military service. some had a disciplinary issue, as travis king appeared to have. one appears to have been drunk at the time of his flight. so i think this is there s probably a lot of different motivations at play here, and i would suspect the north koreans are as surprised as we are, in terms of his flight and trying to make sense of why he did what he did. and what will happen next. the new book titled defectors, how the elicit flight of soviet citizens built the cold war world. erik, congratulations on the book. thank you for joining us. thank you. ahead, new polling showing donald trump still with a demanding lead in the 2024 republican race. and one of our next guests asks republican donors who are looking for an alternative to the former president, what are you waiting for? ....