in its own good time. they are in no rush. why should they be? they will want firstly to make absolutely sure that travis king was not some kind of american attempt to probe the north korean defences. remember that hejumped across north korean defences. remember that he jumped across actually at the joint security area where the north koreans have been pulling back troops for some time, largely because of quarantine to do with the covid pandemic. they will also want to get senior leader guidance on how they are going to handle this. now, this is a private second class will stop he is unlikely to be a huge intelligence advantage for the north koreans, they will be assessing whether they can use them for propaganda value. all of this will take time, a lot of this will take time, a lot of consultations, a lot of discussions, probably at quite senior level in north korea, during which they were simply not respond to any us approach. and how do you think they will go about making those asse
king was not some kind of american attempt to probe the north korean defences so remember, hejumped across remember, he jumped across actually remember, hejumped across actually at thejoint remember, hejumped across actually at the joint security area where the north koreans have been putting batches for some time. largely because of quarantine to do with the covid pandemic. they will also want to get senior leader guidance on how they are going to handle this. now, this is a private second class. he is unlikely to be a huge intelligence falter north koreans. they be assessing whether they can use him as a propaganda value. all this will take time. a lot of consultations. a lot of discussions. probably at a quite senior level in the north korean leadership during which they will simply not respond to any approach. they will simply not respond to any approach- any approach. and how do you think they any approach. and how do you think they will any approach. and how do you think the
of american attempt to probe the north korean defences. remember that hejumped across actually at the joint security area, where the north koreans have been pulling back troops for some time, largely because of quarantine, to do with the covid pandemic. they will also want to get senior leader guidance on how they are going to handle this. now, this is a private second class. he is unlikely to be a huge intelligence value for the north koreans, they will be assessing whether they can use him for propaganda value. all of this will take time, a lot of consultations, a lot of discussions, probably at quite senior level in north korea, during which they were simply not respond to any us approach. and how do you think they will go about making those assessments about private travis king? you are one of the few rare people, an outsider, who has lived in pyongyang. from your experience, how do you think you will be regarded? the north koreans are very thorough in these matters.
we would like to know his whereabouts. we communicated to north korea, seeking that information. there are certainly concerns, based on what we ve seen in the past and the way that north korea has treated those it s detained. now, i ve been speaking with some experts who have been dealing with north korea for decades. they said that they don t expect private king to be released anytime soon. they expect north korea will want to get some kind of use out of it, namely a propaganda victory. they were probably want to try him out in front of state television, use him, a uniformed u.s. soldier, a serving u.s. soldier, to tell their people that this young man wanted to go to north korea, try to use him, again, for propaganda value. so, we are not really expecting him to be released anytime soon, but the real issue here, erin, is that we haven t heard anything from the north koreans. they ve been entirely moot and it s only until we get some kind of acknowledgment from the
again,, there s missiles all landing in the ocean. now all of this happening kessler spent note word from north korea on the fate of private travis king. now, if you remember, this was a young man, a young serving u.s. soldier, who darted across the border into north korea and shock the world and set off a diplomatic crisis. now, we haven t heard anything, again, from north korea. we ve been speaking with some experts here who have been saying that given past behavior by north korea, when they find gifted something like this, it doesn t look good for private travis king. this 23-year-old young man, who had something of a criminal record here in south korea, north korea turns, they say, it will want to use him for some kind of propaganda value before they let him go, or even entertain the idea of letting him go. this after probably interrogating him, whether or not he is there of his own volition or whether not he is some sort of spy trying to commit espionage, but this is a situation t