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The American soldier who recently defected to North Korea had previously been in a South Korean prison for two months for assault: https://www.bostonherald.com/
by mcpackieh 3y ago
The American soldier who recently defected to North Korea had previously been in a South Korean prison for two months for assault: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/18/us-soldier-who-fled-to-north-korea-had-served-2-months-in-south-korea-prison-on-assault-charge/ https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/18/us-soldier-who-fled-...
Here is a 2007 article in Stars and Stripes (USDoD newspaper) about the special treatment American service-members receive in South Korean prisons: https://www.stripes.com/news/u-s-servicemembers-treated-differently-in-south-korean-prisons-1.62880 https://www.stripes.com/news/u-s-servicemembers-treated-diff...
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>The American soldier who recently defected to North Korea Wait, what?!
- mcpackieh 3y agoJust last week, the first such defection in 40 years I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King He was meant to board a plane back to America where he would be thrown out of the military, but he evidently decided to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoReading through his list of "achievements" of always getting into trouble, that looks like a person suffering from mental illnesses. I suspect the north will keep him as a bargaining chip to exchange for something later on.