Pvt. Travis King was supposed to be on his way to Fort Bliss, Texas, this week after finishing a prison sentence in South Korea for assault.
South Korean soldiers stand guard as they face North Korea's Panmon Hall at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. Korean People’s Army. My understanding is that those communications have not yet been answered," Matthew Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, told reporters Wednesday in Washington.The U.S.
King’s family members said the soldier may have felt overwhelmed by legal trouble in South Korea that could lead to a discharge from the military. North Korea has previously held a number of Americans who were arrested for anti-state, espionage and other charges. But no other Americans were known to be detained since North Korea expelled American Bruce Byron Lowrance in 2018. During the Cold War, a small number of U.S. soldiers who fled to North Korea later appeared North Korean propaganda films.
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