but this bring you some breaking news now and this is coming in from the pentagon in the us and they say that the us army private trevis is currently considered absent without leave after crossing into north korea. this is about trevis king, private trevis king who moved into north korea after taking a tour and that the demilitarised zone on tuesday and north korea has not been responding to attempts to negotiate his release. that is the breaking news line from the pentagon that the us army considers trevis king to be absent without leave after making the crossing. will bring you more if it comes in. turning to another diplomatic dispute, the iraqi government has ordered the swedish ambassador in baghdad to leave as a row of the recent burning of the
in three places tonight. the pentagon has been releasing more details of the soldier who entered north korea but it seems there s an awful lot they don t know. private travis king went through the demilitarised zone on tuesday. he had been due to fly back to the us to face a disciplinary hearing but managed to avoid boarding the plane. pentagon spokesperson sabrina singh gave this update. so in terms of the escorting to the plane, this was someone that was going as private king, i should say, was going from one duty station. he was leaving a deployment and going back and returning home to his home base or his home station. so when he was escorted all the way up, he was they were only able to escort him up to security. and when he got to the gate, he did confirm that he was near the gate.