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Man flees China by riding jet ski hundreds of miles to South Korea

www.nbcnews.com Man flees China by riding jet ski hundreds of miles across the sea

The man, who has been detained since he washed up in the port city of Incheon last week, is believed to be a dissident who was previously jailed for criticizing President Xi Jinping.

Man flees China by riding jet ski hundreds of miles across the sea

A jet ski rider who has been detained since he washed up on South Korea’s coast is believed to be a Chinese dissident who feared for his safety and fled by crossing hundreds of miles of sea, trailing barrels of fuel behind him.

The coast guard in the western South Korean port city of Incheon said in a statement Sunday that a Chinese man in his 30s tried to illegally enter the country Aug. 16 by riding a jet ski from the Shandong area of China, an eastern province around 200 miles away across the Yellow Sea.

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