Racism drove US soldier to defect

Racism drove US soldier to defect – North Korea

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 17, 2023 12:24 am

SEOUL: Travis King defected to North Korea to escape 'mistreatment and racial discrimination in the US Army,' the country's state media said on Wednesday, Pyongyang's first official confirmation that they were holding the American soldier.

A private second class with a checkered disciplinary record, King was due to fly back to the United States in July, but instead slipped out of South Korea's main airport, joined a tourist trip to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and ran across the border into the North.

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