King, who had served in South Korea, sprinted into North Korea while on a civilian tour of a border village on July 18.
SEOUL, South Korea — Pvt. Travis King, the American soldierOne official said King was transferred to American custody in China. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss King’s status ahead of the announcement.
On Wednesday, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that authorities have finished their questioning of King. It said that he confessed to illegally entering the North because he harbored “ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” within the U.S. Army and was “disillusioned about the unequal U.S. society.”In an , King’s mother, Claudine Gates, said her son had reason to want to come home.
in the past include soldiers, missionaries, human rights advocates or those simply curious about one of the world’s most cloistered societies.
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