North Korea says U.S. soldier Travis King wants to stay, blames racism
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U.S. soldier Travis King, who defected to North Korea while facing a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Army, wants to stay in the country because of abuse and racism in the United States, according to North Korea. King, 23, spent 1.
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By Gawon Bae and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — North Korea on Wednesday confirmed publicly for the first time that US Army Private Travis King crossed into its territory. A statement from the country’s government-controlled Korean Central News Agency claimed King had expressed “his willingness to see…
A state news agency said Travis King entered North Korea because he “harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army.”
The report in state-run media KCNA is the first time the isolated country has remarked at length on the American soldier who crossed into North Korea last month.
The Pentagon says it has not had contact with Travis T. King, the U.S. soldier who North Korea is claiming crossed into its borders willingly to escape racial discrimination.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday offered its first official confirmation that it had detained a U.S. soldier who bolted into its country last month, releasing a statement through …
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after becoming disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army.
U.S. soldier Travis King, who defected to North Korea while facing a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Army, wants to stay in the country because of abuse and racism in the United States, according to North Korea. King, 23, spent 1.
Pvt. Travis King, the U.S. soldier who dashed across the DMZ into North Korea last month, is alive in the secretive nation, North Korea’s state media confirmed Wednesday in Pyongyang.
Private 2nd Class Travis King entered North Korea while on a tour of a Korean border village, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years.
Official news agency says Travis King defected over unhappiness with 'inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination' in military, though impossible to verify Pyongyang propaganda
Communist North Korea has just revealed why former US Soldier Travis King defected last month while touring the DMZ. In short, they claim he was upset over inhuman maltreatment and racial discriminati...
North Korean state-run media KCNA commented for the first time on an American soldier who crossed into the country illegally in July, NBC News reported.
North Korea’s first public confirmation that a US soldier crossed into its territory in July has prompted an appeal from his family to treat him humanely, as questions remain about why he entered one of the most hostile countries on Earth at a time of heightened tensions on the peninsula.
The report from the government-owned and run news agency marks North Korea's first public confirmation of the incident since 23-year-old Travis King crossed the border in July.
North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned with the inequality of American society…
North Korea said Tuesday that Travis King, the private who bolted across the military demarcation line with South Korea in July, had confessed to defecting because of "inhuman" treatment in the U.S. Army.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea’s first public confirmation that a US soldier crossed into its territory in July has prompted an appeal from his family to treat him humanely, as questions remain about why he entered one of the most hostile countries on Earth at a time of heightened tensions o…
