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North Korea confirms US Army defector Travis King is in country; said soldier wants refuge from ‘mistreatment,’ racism
The New York Post ^ | 08/15/2023 | Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 08/15/2023 6:30:09 PM PDT by thegagline

North Korea finally confirmed Tuesday that US soldier Travis King is being detained in the country — nearly a month after he bolted across the border.

King told investigators that he had decided to enter North Korea because he “harbored ill feelings against inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army,” officials said.

The 23-year-old also expressed his willingness to seek refuge in North Korea or a third country, saying he “was disillusioned at the unequal American society,” the North Korean official news agency, KCN, said in a statemen

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awol; black; korea; northkorea; racism; traitor
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To: Nextrush

Agreed...


41 posted on 08/15/2023 7:02:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: thegagline
Great Leader Kim, give a home and give me a smile

Traitorous porch money needs to be executed on the spot.

42 posted on 08/15/2023 7:03:43 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: DoughtyOne
That's what I said about the kid's boss, Lloyd Austin....

43 posted on 08/15/2023 7:05:09 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: redfreedom

Once King realizes that without the ability to speak Korean, he has no marketable job skills in North Korea. He will find that life is no fantasy world on the Unicorn Farm.


44 posted on 08/15/2023 7:27:42 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I hope North Korea does to him what the Turks did to Billy Hayes back in the 1970s: make an example of his sorry little backside and give him a very harsh sentence!


45 posted on 08/15/2023 7:28:08 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: PGR88

He is a communista, after all.


46 posted on 08/15/2023 7:29:03 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: thegagline

Huge grain of salt with whatever North Korea says.


47 posted on 08/15/2023 7:29:24 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: NWFree
Give him a pair of pajamas and a bowl rice when he gets to the work camp

He'd be lucky to get rice. A lot of North Koreans have to eat grass to survive.

48 posted on 08/15/2023 7:37:31 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: thegagline
The 23-year-old also expressed his willingness to seek refuge in North Korea or a third country, saying he “was disillusioned at the unequal American society,”

This is going to be fun.

We've seen this movie before, son, and maybe you haven't because you weren't paying attention, or never read a book.

Cutting to the chase, all the suckers like you wind up horrified at the Communist world, and after a few months or years, figure out a way to get home to America, which, even in its present state, has "rights" and "liberty" that automatically belong to any citizen--regardless of whether he comes from an important Communist family.

It's way different, bro.

We'll see you soon, and leave the light on for you.

49 posted on 08/15/2023 7:46:37 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: thegagline

Enjoy starving in the gulag.


50 posted on 08/15/2023 7:57:05 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: thegagline

Anybody stupid enough to defect to North Korea belongs there.


51 posted on 08/15/2023 8:02:20 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: thegagline

Talkin bout lookin fer luv inall the wrong places !!#!!

Once you go north Korean

You’ll never go back.


52 posted on 08/15/2023 8:11:34 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Leaning Right

Then what will Biden trade for this guy?

A ton of gold? A ton of enriched uranium? Our latest missile guidance system?

/\

All the above

and some of his stash of ice cream and cocaine.


53 posted on 08/15/2023 8:13:58 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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54 posted on 08/15/2023 8:38:58 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: thegagline

I suggest every black, hate whitey criminal, flees to North Korea. I’ll even pay for a few of their airline tickets.


55 posted on 08/15/2023 8:47:39 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: No name given

We do not know that. He simply was incorrigible, unfit for military service, violent, would not submit to punishment which he deserved nor military justice. Nothing political at all about it. He fled because he is a nutcase. BAD decision

He fits the pattern of nearly all US defectors to North Korea so far. Trouble back on base down in the ROK.


56 posted on 08/15/2023 9:10:34 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Pray for Jim. ***** Donate to FR (Freepathon) PS: ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: cuz1961

Oh he will eventually come home. But it will be semi conscious, in an air ambulance, intubated and unable to speak about what happened to him, with a short life remaining for him back in the USA. Mark my word, it will happen.


57 posted on 08/15/2023 9:12:22 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Pray for Jim. ***** Donate to FR (Freepathon) PS: ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: No name given

He got the luxury prisons - He could have been sent to the prison in Sinope which has a nice collection of Medieval torture instruments which are shown to various inmates, including the Iron Maiden. No one lasted more than 5 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinop_Fortress_Prison

Bonus points:
If you go to the wiki page and hover over the first link (Sinope Fortress in Sinope, Turkey) the image is taken from the hill top where there ponce was an American listening post.

The hill is also famous for the Well of Diogenes of Sinope where he was supposed to have held up his lamp looking for an honest man.

In the lower right of the image is a red roofed large building - that is/was the local girls school.


58 posted on 08/16/2023 5:29:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DoughtyOne

“harbored ill feelings against inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army,” officials said.
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We don’t need people like that in our military... or our country. I’m sure he will be happier in NorK./s


59 posted on 08/16/2023 5:56:13 AM PDT by octex
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To: thegagline

He thinks Asians in their own country are neither racist nor xenophobic. Okaaay.


60 posted on 08/16/2023 6:33:30 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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