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US soldier who crossed into North Korea
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 9/27/2023 9:41:33 AM

SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago is in American custody, two U.S. officials said Wednesday. Earlier, North Korea said it would expel Pvt. Travis King — an announcement that surprised some observers who had expected the North to drag out his detention in the hopes of squeezing concessions from Washington at a time of high tensions between the rivals. Though King’s expulsion resolves a still-mysterious episode, it almost certainly does not end his troubles or ensure the sort of celebratory homecoming that has accompanied the releases of other detained Americans. His fate remains

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Peregrine 9/27/2023 9:47:25 AM (No. 1564367)
Sounds like "The Ransom of Red Chief"
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mifla 9/27/2023 10:20:13 AM (No. 1564389)
In a related story, North Korea has announced that it is now the proud owner of the latest NBA franchise, the Korean Kommies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bighambone 9/27/2023 10:26:42 AM (No. 1564396)
Who paid off who? If not, the North Koreans figured that the guy is a “nut job” who can do nothing for them. Let’s see if Biden invites “the boy” as Biden would refer to him, to the White House, and give him an award or medal of some sort for what would be called his obvious act of reparations against the supposed racial hatred and discrimination to the World’s attention that the leftist and social Democrats have supposedly “discovered” existing in the U.S. military. Such a visit obviously depend if Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats can make some political hay out of this guy’s caper in an attempt to escape from military law.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: curious1 9/27/2023 10:29:16 AM (No. 1564398)
30 days bread and water and kick him out. Unless his Top thinks he can be turned around. Because this goof obviously didn't think ahead when he acted.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vaquero45 9/27/2023 10:31:55 AM (No. 1564403)
This guy is such a sack of crap that even the Norks kicked him out!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 9/27/2023 10:35:52 AM (No. 1564407)
Is this another Oswald?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 9/27/2023 11:12:06 AM (No. 1564437)
Obviously, the Norks saw this nut case as no of value, no bargaining chip. He is again our problem.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: chumley 9/27/2023 11:12:07 AM (No. 1564438)
Must not have been much of a guest. Probably demanding and entitled. Pretty bad when you get eaten by a shark and the shark spits you back out.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 9/27/2023 11:38:06 AM (No. 1564445)
Even North Korea had no use for this t*rd.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MickTurn 9/27/2023 11:54:39 AM (No. 1564450)
I guess the Commie slave camps PR failed....
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Reply 11 - Posted by: red1066 9/27/2023 12:03:04 PM (No. 1564455)
Even the Norcoms realized this clown was useless.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: john56 9/27/2023 1:47:54 PM (No. 1564524)
Kinda reminds me of the story of the kidnappers who threatened if his family didn't pay the ransom, they'd send him back.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Amanoftwistsandturns 9/27/2023 2:27:24 PM (No. 1564551)
And since he was not listed as a deserter he continued to draw full pay during his absence.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Grateful 9/27/2023 2:39:38 PM (No. 1564561)
Private Travis King, the defector to North Korea, has a new spokesperson and his name is Beau Bergdahl.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: smokincol 9/27/2023 2:40:47 PM (No. 1564562)
and is now being keel hauled behind a USN Destroyer through the Bering Sea headed for San Francisco and thence to Leavenworth for a well deserved incarceration, on the publics tab
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Reply 16 - Posted by: smak90 9/27/2023 4:31:01 PM (No. 1564626)
I suspect NK didn't trust anything about the situation and thought it could be a trick for the US attacking NK. The lowest risk option on their part was to get rid of the idiot.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: rochow 9/27/2023 9:05:58 PM (No. 1564750)
The US should have left this POS over in North Korea. Good place for him to be and rot.
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