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SEOUL, Sept 20 (Reuters): South Korean police said on Sunday they had arrested a defector who tried to return to North Korea after a similar, successful crossing in July escalated tensions on the peninsula.
The defector, who had fled to South Korea in 2018, was suspected of breaking into a military training site in South Korea's border town of Cheorwon on Thursday to head back to North Korea.
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