North Korean Gets Drunk, Wakes Up in South

"Whiskey takes you to a better world," goes the saying. "But then the world you wake up in is worse than the one that you left." One hard-drinking North Korean may have found only the first part to be true. The man, thought to be in his 20s, was discovered by South Korean authorities on Sunday morning—drunk, wearing only his underwear, and hiding in somebody's house in the coastal border town of Gangwha. "The man said he crossed to the South, holding on to a floating object to waters off the coast of Gyodong Island," says a spokesman for the South Korean military. "The floating object is seen as a wooden board that drifted due to the flood in the North." This seemingly inadvertent act of intoxicated self-smuggling has opened up new possibilities for the man's future: after questioning by the South Korean Marine Corps, he'll be able to choose between returning to the secretive land of Kim Jong-un or remaining in the thriving democracy he woke up in. And the result of his last binge may make him think twice before his next one.