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ELITE VOL.1, Issue 55, May 2023
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VOL.1, Issue 55, May 2023

Planned transit or coincidence

Mirna Osama - Political Sciences - Merna.Osama2019@feps.edu.eg

An American soldier called Travis King, The event was considered "disturbing" to
deliberately and unauthorised crossed, on leader Kim Jong Un's regime and a headache
18th of July 2023, the border between the for American officials, especially as it comes
two Koreas, North and South, through the between strained relations between the two
United Nations-administered demilitarised Koreas and North Korea and the United
zone, where he was arrested by North States, which have not maintained diplomatic
Koreans and is now believed to be in North relations, making North Korea's detention of
Korean custody. this soldier a particular problem.

King was sent with the U.S. military to Therefore, the event was a fascination that

South Korea but sparked some riots and ignites tensions between the two countries
attacks. He was therefore detained for two that have not ended since they began 70 years
months and could face additional military ago with the Korean War and the latter's split
disciplinary action and dismissal upon into North and South Korea, where the
return to the United States. After being United States was the last ally. After attempts
released, he was in the process of being to de-escalate the situation between the
expelled and returned to Texas, but fled United States and North Korea over nuclear
after passing through airport security, weapons, the two countries did not find room
unexpectedly joining a tourist group to the for agreement until tensions between them
Korean border of Panmunjom, a popular reached a peak that saw the world await an
tourist spot in the demilitarised zone imminent nuclear war, especially after the war
between the two countries, through which of words that existed and persisted between
he was able to cross into North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and
United States presidents.

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