King is the soldier who illegally crossed into North Korea in July and was subsequently held in captivity for 71 days.
before being returned home to the United States earlier this month has been detained by the U.S. military, two officials said Thursday night, and is facing charges including desertion and possessing sexual images of a child.
King's mother, Claudine Gates, said in a statement that her son should be “afforded the presumption of innocence.” She said, “A mother knows her son, and I believe something happened to mine while he was deployed.”King, 23, from South Korea in July and became the first American detained in North Korea in nearly five years.
Officials said King was taken to the airport and escorted as far as customs. But instead of getting on the plane, he left and later joined a civilian tour of the Korean border village of . He ran across the border, which is lined with guards and often crowded with tourists, in the afternoon. At the time, officials said they did not know exactly why North Korea decided to let King go, but suspected Pyongyang determined that as a low-ranking serviceman he had no real value in terms of either leverage or information.
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