they cannot verify the alleged comments by travis king. pyongyang alsoarm article saying he wanted to seek rev fufuge in north korea or a d country because of this maltreatment. again, we don t know if that is accurate. we don t have direct comments from travis king. we still haven t seen him since a month ago when he crossed the military demarcation line into north korea while on a civilian tour of the dmz, the joint security area. so certainly what u.s. officials are trying to do now is find out more information about his whereabouts, about his condition for example. that was not touched upon in state run media. also heard from his mother through a family spokesperson after this announcement from pyongyang and she said that she asks pyongyang to treat her son, quote, humanely. she also asks for a phone call with him. but we know from previous cases, from precedences of u.s. detainees in the country, that