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00:26 Yeah, what I can confirm, and I would say up front that we're very early in this
00:32 event, and so there's a lot that we're still trying to learn.
00:38 But what we do know is that one of our service members who was on a tour,
00:43 willfully and without authorization, cross the military demarcation line.
00:49 We believe that he is in the BRK custody.
00:52 And so we're closely monitoring and investigating the situation.
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01:01 >> People were just taking photos and not really doing much.
01:05 And then I suddenly noticed that there was a guy dressed in black running very,
01:08 very fast, towards sort of in a curved line towards the North Korean border.
01:12 And at first I thought, what is going on?
01:17 This must be some kind of joke.
01:19 Maybe he has a friend who's filming it for TikTok.
01:22 And I just thought that was the stupidest thing on Earth.
01:25 And then he didn't stop.
01:27 And then at about that time, one of the American soldiers shouted, get him.
01:32 And the American and South Korean soldiers chased after him.
01:36 But he was going so fast and so close to the border by that point that
01:40 they couldn't, they didn't catch him.
01:42 I didn't know he was a soldier at the time, cuz he was wearing black jeans and
01:47 just a normal civilian t-shirt with a thing.
01:51 And then when they got everyone back on the bus,
01:55 they read out the list of attendees.
01:58 We'd had our passports checked a number of times by this point.
02:01 And that was the name that got called out and no one answered.
02:06 That was when I realized what his name was.
02:09 Everybody, when we first got told to run and get into Freedom House,
02:14 there were some people who I don't think had actually realized what was going on.
02:19 And I mean, I personally just ran really quickly.
02:22 And then when we got in the house, we were told to sort of line up and
02:25 then we were doing that.
02:27 And then they said actually just get on the bus.
02:29 So we did that.
02:30 And it all happened so quickly.
02:34 I think people were shocked and scared.
02:35 It wasn't until we got on the bus that everybody kind of looked around and
02:39 looked at each other and sort of said, what was that?
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