Fox News By Greg Norman , Jennifer Griffin , Liz Friden
US soldier held by North Korea after crossing border previously got in fight with locals, skipped flight home, official says.
A plainclothes American soldier has been detained in North Korea Tuesday after crossing the Military Demarcation Line separating the country from South Korea, U.S. officials tell Fox News.
A senior defense official tells Fox News that Private 2nd Class Travis King had just finished about two months in a South Korean detention facility following a physical altercation with locals. After King was arrested and throughout the time he was held at the facility he made comments that he did not want to come back to America, according to the official.
A U.S. Forces Korea spokesperson said King was on a joint security area orientation tour on Tuesday when he “wilfully and without authorization crossed the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).”
“We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA (Korean People’s Army) counterparts to resolve this incident,” the spokesperson added…
If you want to get him back safely… first, let Toad Boy Kim gloat for a few weeks then buy him off with pizza coupons, expensive food stuff from European countries and world class wine. Call it “humanitarian aid” and Kim will be quiet until he starts running out of goodies again.