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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The commies figured out how lazy he was and sent him back
You are absolutely correct, nothing will happen to him. Be given a honorable discharge and quietly slip away.
North Koreans are ray-ciss!
LOL - did they finally finish that thing? Haven’t they been building it for decades?
Maybe they can put some of our illegals up in there.
He was being chaptered out when he bolted. Not worth a bullet.
Not unless he puts on a skirt. Today's Army does have standards, you know.
Probably a “Ransom of Red Chief” situation...Hopefully we extracted concessions to take him back.
Bravo Zulu!
He had no propaganda value, and when they realized he was there for their welfare program they shipped is ass home.
Maybe his defection wasn’t a spontaneous act of stupidity after all- perhaps he was a courier taking money or message to Kim from Uncle Joe’s handlers
Seems like he hates his country- thats worth a stripe or two nowadays.
Put the traitorous POS into the ground, ASAP...
I thought he looked a bit light in the loafers myself.
They realized he was a useless ghetto-clown, didn’t want to pay to house him, or risk him possibly polluting the Korean gene-pool.
:shrug: Even the North Koreans don’t want anything to do with this silly twit.
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