American soldier Travis King has returned to the United States after being freed by North Korea, a Defense Department official said.
WASHINGTON, United States — American soldier Travis King has returned to the United States after being freed by North Korea, a Defense Department official said Thursday.
After a drunken pub fight, an incident with police and a stay in South Korean jail, Private Second Class King was being taken to the airport in July to fly back to Texas. But after completing its investigation, Pyongyang has "decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the US Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the Republic," the Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday, using the North's formal acronym.
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