Re: US Nigger Deserter Soldier Who Fled to North Korea Is in American Custody

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> Deserters should all be summarily executed.

Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is
in U.S. custody after being expelled by North Korea into China, U.S.
officials said on Wednesday.

North Korea's KCNA state news agency said King had been expelled after
admitting to entering North Korea illegally as he was "disillusioned about
unequal U.S. society."

A U.S. official told Reuters King was in U.S. custody after being expelled
by North Korea into China, but did not offer further details.

The expulsion decision was contained in the final results of an
investigation into King's July border crossing published by KCNA. Last
month it reported interim findings that he wanted refuge in North Korea or
elsewhere because of maltreatment and racial discrimination within the
army.

"King confessed that he illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK
as he harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial
discrimination within the U.S. army and was disillusioned about the
unequal U.S. society," KCNA said.

DPRK are the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea.

Authorities decided to expel King under the country's law, KCNA said.

The U.S. State Department and the White House could not be immediately
reached for comment. U.S. Forces Korea and the United Nations Command did
not immediately respond to requests for comment.

King, an army private, made a sudden dash into North Korea from the South
on July 18 while on a civilian tour of the Joint Security Area on the
heavily fortified border between the neighbours.

There have been several attempts by U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea
to desert or defect to North Korea, but King's expulsion decision came
relatively quickly: Others have spent years before being released from the
reclusive country.

Jonathan Franks, spokesperson for King's family, said: "No substantive
comment expected. We need time."

King's uncle, Myron Gates, told ABC News in August that his nephew, who is
black, was experiencing racism during his military deployment, and that
after he spent time in a South Korean jail, he did not sound like himself.

King, who joined the U.S. Army in January 2021, faced two allegations of
assault in South Korea. He pleaded guilty to one instance of assault and
destroying public property for damaging a police car during a profanity-
laced tirade against Koreans, according to court documents. He was due to
face more disciplinary measures when he arrived back in the United States.

King had finished serving military detention and had been transported by
the U.S. military to the airport to return to his home unit in the United
States. Instead, he left the airport and joined a tour of the border area,
where he ran across despite attempts by South Korean and U.S. guards to
stop him.

Lim Eul-chul, a professor of North Korean studies at South Korea's
Kyungnam University, said Pyongyang could have felt that any diplomatic
and propaganda value in keeping King was outweighed by the likely U.S.
pressure it would face.

"It seems likely that North Korea saw little value in him as a
countermeasure to a U.S. human rights campaign against themselves by
highlighting racial issues in America," he said.

"The decision could also mean that the political burden from detaining him
for a long term would be greater than any political benefits it might
bring."

(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin in Seoul and Susan Heavey, Trevor Hunnicutt,
Doina Chiacu and David Brunnstrom in Washington, and Brendan O'Brien in
Chicago; editing by Toby Chopra, Philippa Fletcher, and Sharon Singleton)

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