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A U.S. soldier who was released from North Korean custody last month after fleeing to the isolated Communist country from neighboring South Korea has been charged by the military with desertion and other counts, according to documents obtained by NBC News. Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, 23, was expelled by North Korea in late September and was taken into U.S. custody in China, officials said at the time.
Rosenblatt, the lead counsel of King's legal team and an assistant professor at the Mississippi College School of Law. 'We ask people to be fair-minded about this and to withhold judgment,' said Rosenblatt, who has represented Bowe Bergdahl, the former U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to desertion after he walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban.
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