Posted on 09/27/2023 8:15:48 AM PDT by Coronal
SEOUL, South Korea — Travis King, the U.S. Army private who intentionally ran across the border into North Korea this summer, is back in U.S. custody, an American official said Wednesday, shortly after the isolated East Asian country said it would expel the soldier.
“U.S. officials have secured the return of Private Travis King from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea," Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said in a statement. He went on to thank the U.S. military personnel who worked to "bring Private King home," as well as the governments of Sweden and China.
King, 23, bolted across the heavily armed border July 18 during a public tour of the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea.
A statement reported by the state-run news agency KCNA said King had confessed he "illegally intruded" into North Korean territory because “he was disillusioned about inhumane treatment and racial discrimination” in the Army, as well as the "inequality existing within the American Society," KCNA said.
The United States has not yet officially responded to these claims.
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More like the Norks noticed the Iran payoff and put the arm on the turnip for ransome.
Sounds like this guy is laying the groundwork for running for elected office as a Democrat.
Sounds like he should have stayed with his commie buddies, the NORKs.
Being that he never played basketball, and North Korea couldn’t afford to feed him…
Lock him up? Are you nuts? In today’s army he will probably be promoted to Flag Rank in order to get the ratios correct.
They got enough mouths to feed in N. Korea and don’t need a grifter who can’t do sh!t.
Even N. Korea doesn’t want this hoodlum.
By this time, he may have not wanted them either.
Offer him a chance to live in the African country of his choice, say Liberia. He can choose incarceration here or to serve out his brig time there as a free man. Pay him his E-1 salary.
Would Liberia take him? First check to see how much aid we’re giving them.
so another black kid that doesn’t have the cure for cancer? NK doesn’t have any use for him.
My guess is that he has a lousy jump shot
“He was of no real value, no intel, no ransom.”
He could have polished the brass on the USS Pueblo, along with other onboard custodial needs.
He’s lucky he didn’t end up in a Nork labor camp.
I wonder if he was expelled for looting.
So when is the hanging?
Didn’t they put him up in Pyongyang’s Ryugyong hotel?
I doubt that he’d have had the opportunity.
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