North Korea is preparing to expel US soldier Travis King, who entered its territory illegally in July from the South, the North Korean state news agency KCNA announced on Wednesday.
After completing its investigation, “the competent body of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) decided to expel Travis King, a US army soldier who illegally entered the territory of the DPRK,” KCNA said, using the acronym of his name. North Korean official. .
Two months in prison in South Korea
This American soldier who defected to North Korea in July had just spent two months in a South Korean prison. Crossing the border to the South, Travis King sought to escape “mistreatment and racial discrimination in the US military,” KCNA said in Augustconfirming that the soldier was detained by Pyongyang.
This American soldier who defected to North Korea in July had just spent two months in a South Korean prison. Crossing the border into the South, Travis King tried to escape “mistreatment and racial discrimination in the US military,” KCNA said in August, confirming that the soldier was detained by Pyongyang.
Possible disciplinary sanctions in the United States
Travis King was due to return to the United States after getting into trouble with the South Korean judicial system, but he crossed the border into the North on July 18, joining a group of tourists visiting the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.
A second class soldier, he was released from prison in South Korea after a bar fight and an altercation with the police. He was due to return to the United States to face disciplinary sanctions.
Technically, the two Koreas have still been at war since 1953, since it was an armistice and not a peace treaty that ended the armed conflict. Fortifications abound on the border, but only a concrete wall separates the two countries at the level of the common security zone (JSA), which remains less difficult to cross despite the presence of soldiers.
Source: BFM TV
