{"id":39546,"date":"2023-07-19T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=39546"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:05:42","slug":"us-soldier-who-crossed-into-north-korea-had-served-time-in-s-korean-jail-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=39546","title":{"rendered":"US soldier who crossed into North Korea had served time in S Korean jail: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US soldier who served around two months in a South Korean jail on assault charges was believed to be in North Korean custody Wednesday after crossing the heavily fortified border without authorisation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier &#8212; identified by the US military as Travis King, a private second class who has been in the army since 2021 &#8212; crossed the border &#8220;willfully and without authorisation,&#8221; US Forces Korea spokesman Colonel Isaac Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Command said he had been on a Joint Security Area (JSA) orientation tour, adding he was believed to be in North Korean custody and that it was working with Pyongyang&#8217;s military to &#8220;resolve this incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;King was released on July 10 after serving around two months in a South Korean prison for assault charges,&#8221; a Seoul official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean police told AFP that King had been investigated for assault in September 2022, but was not detained at the time.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News, citing US officials, reported that the low-ranking soldier was being escorted home to the United States for disciplinary reasons, but managed to leave the airport and join the tour group.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/137100\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US soldier who served around two months in a South Korean jail on assault charges was believed to be in North Korean custody Wednesday after crossing the heavily fortified border without authorisation, officials said. The soldier &#8212; identified by the US military as Travis King, a private second class who has been in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39548,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546\/revisions\/39548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}