The United States is still working to bring back the soldier who crossed the border into North Korea

USA still working to bring back the soldier who crossed the border to North Korea last month, despite the assertion of Pyongyang that he has requested asylum in the country, a Defense Department official told CNN.

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The official also assured that his office cannot corroborate the information, revealed this Wednesday (Tuesday in the US) by the North Korean state agency KCNA, that the US soldier Travis King He has requested asylum due to the racial discrimination he suffers in the Army.

“The department’s priority is to bring the soldier King back home, and we work through all possible channels to achieve that result.”explained the source.

A spokesman for the family of King asked the North Korean authorities to let the young man speak to his mother, and to treat him humanely.

The soldier crossed the Military Demarcation Line on July 18 and entered North Korean territory while on a sightseeing tour of the Joint Security Zone (JSA) in the heart of the border between the two Koreas.

He Pentagon stated at the end of last month that there had been no progress either in contacts or in possible negotiations with North Korea about Kingand that he did not know what state he was in.

Today’s news is the first time that North Korean regime media have confirmed the presence of the American soldier in the country.

King23, crossed the border north after spending 48 days in a prison workshop South Korea because he did not pay the fine he was given in February for kicking and damaging a police car in seoul.

As a disciplinary measure, Washington decided to repatriate him, but King fled from Incheon International Airport, which serves seoulwhere I had to take a return flight USAand the next day he booked a tourist visit to the JSA that he took the opportunity to cross to North Korea.

Source: Elcomercio

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