U.S. Army Private Travis T. King bolted across the DMZ into North Korea on Tuesday. His apparent defection is vexing for both sides, maybe more so for Pyongyang.
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Army Private Travis T. King had finished serving nearly two months in detention in South Korea and was being escorted to the airport to fly home and likely face disciplinary action. Instead, roughly 24 hours later, he sprinted into North Korea while on a civilian tour of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the border between the two Koreas. So began a bizarre odyssey that landed an active-duty American soldier in North Korean hands and created a fre
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(Reuters) - The United States is trying to determine the fate of Private Travis T. King, a U.S. soldier who made an unauthorised crossing into North Korea on July 18, throwing Washington into a new crisis in its dealing with Pyongyang.