Posted on 07/21/2023 9:06:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Speculation continues to mount over the fate of American soldier Travis King after he fled into North Korean territory earlier this week — with the US revealing the hermit kingdom has gone silent about his well-being and fate.
From being used as a propaganda tool to being propped up as a potential bargaining chip, the guesses about North Korea’s next steps vary widely given there’s little precedent for King’s situation, experts and former diplomats say.
The 23-year-old, who is the first US soldier in decades to defect to North Korea, bolted across the border on Tuesday during a civilian tour of the tightly controlled Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas.
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Why was he allowed to go on tours when he was being sent back to the U.S. for official military consequences, he should have had a MP escort the entire trip.
Who cares. He renounced his citizenship and defected to a country that we are at war with.
The worst damn country on the planet and the idiot decides to defect there.......Sheesh!
I don't think anyone in that country has ever heard of rap music, or any other western music for that matter.
He was also looking at a court marshal, and fled into the DPRK. Died there, He worked for Kim Il Sung, always playing sadistic American villians.
he looks for trouble...let him be...
He’s black. Asians are some of the most racist people on Earth and the Norks are no different.
This guys toast.
I wouldn’t lift a finger. Make a choice that stupid, you wear it.
They’ll use him for propaganda purposes. What politician has the balls to say “keep him over there?”
They’ll get tired of him. They don’t like blacks.
North Korea will want to exchange him for one of their defectors. Biden will do it. Defector will then be executed with an anti aircraft gun.
This was planned in advance. They were waiting for him when he defected.
I am more worried about what it is going to cost us to get him back. Remember Bowe Bergdahl?
LOL, like the Norks got tired of Frank Burns in that MASH episode.
I met him a few times in Newport beach I found him funny engaging lovable and BAT SHIT crazy
Seems to me he was on the verge of being kicked out of the Army for being a total FU and figure this way the US might go to extremes to get him free like they did for Brittney Griner. Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen but then Biden needs to sucker the blacks in to vote for him again.
NK probably will return this lowlife. There is absolutely nothing about this person that they want introduced into their society.
They can look to issues caused here in the US by them and say dude, your negatives outweigh any potential benefit. You’re going home!
Sounded like he was already facing actions.
What was his MOS, did he work in cyber security?
Norks are not known to “like” Africans or blacks of any nation. Culturally and Communistically speaking. It is a prison state, this idiot defected to a true prison— for life.
The US should take absolutely no action to secure his return.
If North Korea brings him up in any way whatsoever, the official response from the US should be “who?”.
Classic culturally linked inability to see what the net result would be from the decision. Impulse non-control and stupid.
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