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Parliamentary speaker Woo Won-shik scaled a fence to enter a heavily-guarded National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Tuesday following President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law.
Citizens of Gimpo, Gyeonggi, cut wire fences which had been set up by the military decades ago to ward off North Korean infiltration along the Han River near the demilitarized zone at a ceremony to remove the wire fences on Wednesday.
The North Korean man who defected to the South early this month was a professional gymnast who slipped through two heavily guarded barbed wire fences in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), according to a military source in Seoul Tuesday.
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