US Army private who fled to North Korea is charged with desertion and child pornography

AP ^ | Oct 19, 2023

[PROCON]

An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the United States earlier this month has been detained by the U.S. military, two officials said Thursday night, and is facing charges including desertion and possessing sexual images of a child.

The eight counts against Pvt. Travis King are detailed in a charging document seen by The Associated Press. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the charges have not been publicly announced.

[PROCON]

This young, dumb private needs to spend some serious prison time.

[dhs12345]

Rat Boy II.

[PGR88]

LOL. North Korea was like “we don’t want this trash. You can have him back.”

[Little Pig]

Guessing that the pr0n charges are *why* the PVT fled to NorK in the first place?

[George from New England]

This is the ‘new’ military that obami started a decade ago.

[dfwgator]

North Korea was like “we don’t want this trash. You can have him back.”

Kind of like that MASH episode when they kidnapped Frank Burns.

[lee martell]

Kim Jong Un read the report concerning this AWOL American private and he was greatly disgusted.

“Keep him in solitary, locked far away from my people.
He almost make me lose my appetite!!
Respond to Dennis Rodman, saying his intervention will not be required at this time.”

[QBFimi]

>> “We don’t want this trash. You can have him back.”

Same thing with Lee Harvey Oswald. The Russkies dumped him off at the American embassy. “Get this wacky SOB outta here.”

[QBFimi]

They should have used him as a stud. Them Norks is awful white - he coulda put some color in their pups. (-:

[sasquatch]

Wonder what medal Bite me will award.

[Thommas]

Not only will Brandon give this miscreant a medal, he will pardon him of any military court conviction.

[ansel12]

“”””Same thing with Lee Harvey Oswald. The Russkies dumped him off at the American embassy. “Get this wacky SOB outta here.””””

Oswald lived and worked in Russia for years and married there had a child and then grew tired of Russia and requested the American embassy to return his Passport and let him and his Russian family move to the United States.

[Dr. Marten]

Should have left him in NK.

[PROCON]

Worthy of a ping, JJ?

[jmacusa]

Over the years I've found Asian peoples I've known and worked with to be incredibly racist , especially towards blacks.

[jmacusa]

Oswald was given a job in a radio factory in Minsk.

The Russians found him to be an absolute loon.

[ansel12]

He did live there for years though, dating, getting married, and having a child, and made his own request to leave.

The Russians accepted him and treated him relatively well.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Oswald was a low level assembler, but was given a manager size apartment and salary. They wanted to use him for propaganda. His oversized salary was probably the only reason his wife married him.

[jmacusa]

I believe he had become disillusioned with the reality of life in the workers paradise and attempted suicide. The Russians realized then , as they first did that Oswald was mentally unstable and needed to be gone. Marina would have married him regardless of any wealth he might have had. In her eyes he was an American and her ticket of of a Soviet hell hole.

[Jet Jaguar]

You bet. Give me a minute.