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© Thomson Reuters 2023.Still no word from North Korea on U.S. soldier who dashed across military border
By Ju-min Park and Phil Stewart SEOUL/WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Michael Machida
North Korea is busy with him. Very busy.
elephant200
K.J. is scheduled to meet him, his fate will be boardcasting to the world !
sakurasuki
I can only imagine those security personnel from south part that want to stop that private from doing foolish action, only being hesitant because of being reminded of extra rules of engagement post-BLM movement.
Fighto!
This King guy seems like he has a few screws loose. Where/how do they recruit these guys? JHS dropouts hanging out in malls?
TaiwanIsNotChina
I bet he'll actually be treated pretty well: he will be a novelty to spice up the NK war dramas.
wallace
First, he will be treated as a spy.
Christopher Mas Osan
He wanted defection. What were hearing in Korea. They may have no word for sometime. He will be the first American to say he went through the South Korean and North Korean hard labor detention facilities.
That has to be a first. But why North Korea? I am seriously wondering if a girl maybe be involved. This is defection. Has to be. No one. I mean no one in their right mind willfully crosses that line.
OssanAmerica
Leave him there. Don't waste out tax dollars on this fool.
Harry_Gatto
I think the Norks are smart enough to know that this guy is of no use to them at all, they know all about him by now and he is of no value to them or to the US.
What they should do is just quietly hand him over to the Chinese and ask them to send him back to the US Army. That way they need have no contact with the US side and face is saved all around.
Yrral
Wallace,he will be treated as intelligence asset for NK,he has info on the US secret on NK
Yrral
Fightoo,you do not know this guy education background,you least have to have GED and and past the General Enlistment Test
Yrral
Ossan, Fightoo These are the same people ask to protect Japan, because people like you cannot do it
Randy Johnson
If common sense were fuel, this guy couldn't charge up a flea's go-kart to do two laps around a cheerio.
Yrral
They arrested a marine,for letting a 14 year girl living on base in the barracks,you would be a fool to learn other marine did not she was there
Yrral
Randy,it obviously the army trusted him with their secrets,the US is scrambling to wipe the egg off their face,this guy should of been kicked out a long time ago,NK will milk this for all it wirth
BeerDeliveryGuy
The biggest “secret” a Pvt in an armored unit would be privy to is that Staff Sergeant is having an affair with an admin clerk, and the vehicle commander is gay.
Desert Tortoise
Forget about him. Don't mention him to the Norks. It happened. It's over. Drive him nuts by showing no interest in repatriating him or even knowing what happened to him.
EFD
As soon as they determine that he has no value as a hostage, they’ll send him back just so that they don’t have to feed him and are not held responsible if he gets sick.
WA4TKG
Let him rot. Should have left the traitor in Afghanistan and the basketball in Russia
TaiwanIsNotChina
Bergdahl just went AWOL, admittedly in a very stupid manner. We have more treasonous people in Congress and the former president.