The bizarre incident took place in the Joint Security Area, or JSA, at the truce village of Panmunjom. It lies inside the DMZ and is a major draw for tourists to South Korea.
and is now in the custody of the Pyongyang regime, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
Two U.S. officials said the soldier detained was Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, who had been held in a South Korean prison on an assault charge and was being returned to the U.S. to face additional disciplinary actions. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters at the Pentagon that U.S. military officials were “closely monitoring” the case, the first known American citizen to be held by the secretive Pyongyang regime in five years.
U.S. officials described a bizarre series of events in which Pvt. King, after being escorted to the airport to be flown back to Fort Bliss, Texas, somehow managed to elude his minders and join a tourist group exploring the famed military border, where he made a sudden dash to the North Korean side. “A U.S. Service member on [an] orientation tour willfully and without authorization crossed the Military Demarcation Line into [
],” Col. Isaac Taylor, a spokesman for the U.S. forces in South Korea, said in a statement. “We believe he is currently in [North Korean] custody and are working with our [North Korean military] counterparts to resolve this incident.”
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