King had been released from his service in the U.S. Army and was to be sent home before he crossed the border from South Korea. Here's more.
U.S. Army soldier Travis King has been in North Korean custody since Tuesday.
The 23-year-old serviceman was visiting the so-called peace village of Panmunjom with a group tour when he reportedly It remains unclear why King crossed the border into North Korea. King “willfully and without authorization”King joined 42 other tourists in Seoul on Tuesday morning for a tour of the DMZ. One tourist in the group, Sarah Leslie,that she had no idea he was a soldier and that it seemed he was by himself. It was toward the end of the tour that Leslie saw King sprint across the border.
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