韩联社，韩国的新闻通讯社，则援引匿名的情报来源说，这架飞机看上去属于前苏联时期的军用喷气战斗机，其飞行员可能尝试叛逃。

Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, citing unnamed intelligence sources, said that the plane appeared to be a Soviet-era military jet and that the pilot might have been trying to defect.

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当时，前苏联全国的报纸也加入到举国欢庆的浪潮中，国际媒体也不放过这轰动一时的新闻。

At that time all the Soviet newspapers also joined the congratulational hype across the country. International media also couldn’t pass by the sensational news from the Evil Empire.

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很明显，当时美国已经在张罗着要入侵阿富汗了，人们对前苏联中亚地区新闻的兴趣也在与日俱增。我开始考虑要不要再次离开美国。

When it became evident that the United States was gearing up to invade Afghanistan, and news interest in post-Soviet Central Asia was growing, I started to think about leaving America again.

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