After skipping his daily formation while serving at Camp Bonifas in South Korea in September, King told army officials he would not “return to post or America.”
American soldier Travis King had shown signs of possibly defecting from the Army nearly a year before he fled into North Korean territory, telling military officials while serving in South Korea that he would not “return to post or America.”
The 23-year-old was the first soldier in decades to defect to North Korea when he bolted across the border on Tuesday.It was not the first sign of trouble for the Wisconsin native, who wasWeeks earlier, on Sept. 4, while serving at Camp Bonifas near the southern end of the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea,When the base managed to reach King, who served as a cavalry scout, he “refused to return to post or America,” a U.S. official told the outlet.
in Aspen, Colorado, on Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made his first public comments about King. “We are very concerned, of course, about his well-being. We’d like to know his whereabouts,” Blinken told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
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