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'I went hiking with a copy of Twilight - then machine gun-wielding guards mistook me for a spy'

'I went hiking with a copy of Twilight - then machine gun-wielding guards mistook me for a spy'

While hiking close to the border between North and South Korea, language tutor Stephen Low found himself in peril when an M16 machine gun-toting guard mistook him for a spy. And that's only one part of his wild story.

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