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Travis King in American custody after N Korea expulsion
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66939470
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US soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea in July, is in American custody after being expelled by Pyongyang, officials say.
Earlier on Wednesday, North Korea’s state-run news agency said the country had decided to remove Pte King, without offering further details.
He had been due to return to the US for disciplinary proceedings, but managed to leave the airport and join a guided tour of the border village of Panmunjom on the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two countries.
In a statement, Pentagon spokesperson Brig Gen Patrick Ryder expressed thanks to both the Swedish and Chinese governments for helping secure Pte King’s release.
Jonathan Franks, a spokesman for Pte King’s mother, Claudine Gates, said in a statement that she will “forever be grateful” to the US Army and its partners “for a job well done”.
Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defence and CIA paramilitary officer, told the BBC it is a “good thing” that Pte King was being returned to US custody, although he “is a young man that made some mistakes”.
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