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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Lock the whiney little biatch up. He obviously has communist tendencies.
He’s black.
Nothing will happen to him.
so will bidet have a rose garden ceremony celebrating a deserters return just as obama did? And will rogue nations be rewarded as was the case with bergdahl?
Nobody noticed something or commented on it.
North Korea has NEVER really helped in the past. Since Trump negotiated with Kim, things have been different.
They returned this guy, and there probably are still bodies/souls that were never returned from the Korean war.
Good for the North Koreans. Hope the US uses the opportunity to keep negotiations open as a sign of good will.
Apparently, the NK’s didn’t want him either.
This is horrible! No human is illegal! Why didn’t he get asylum if he has a ‘credible fear’ of persecution in his homeland? He just wanted to work!
He was of no real value, no intel, no ransom.
They would have had to feed the traitor, so get rid of him and make propaganda points at the same time.............
One news story said that he was expelled from NK, not released.
There was a time when deserters were shot..............
It wasn’t negotiations that got him released. It was NK not wanting to deal with his craziness. I hope he got a good taste of life in NK and spends appropriate time locked up here.
He had no propaganda value, and when they realized he was there for their welfare program they shipped is ass home.
A think a promotion may be in order for this young lad.....
LOL!!! Even the Norks didn’t want him!
“the isolated East Asian country said it would expel the soldier”
I’m sure the Norks got sick real quick of him telling them “you’re not practicing TRUE communism!”
He’s such a loser even NK didn’t want him.
True...but I doubt that NK got anything of value from him.
Yeah, I think he's a bit of a nutcase. If they could have gotten some propaganda use out of him, it would have already happened by now.
“when they realized he was there for their welfare program”
Oh he’s a real genius isn’t he? Go to a country that famously told its citizens they could eat grass for a welfare program???
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