North Korea to deport US soldier Travis King

Global News Podcast

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News, Daily News

4.3 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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North Korean media said the private, who's black, had fled because of inhumane treatment and racism in the US military. Also: The exodus continues - it's reported almost half the Armenian population has now thought to have left Nagorno Karabakh, and what would you do if a bear crashed your quiet picnic?

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0:00.0	LiveSless Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service bringing you extraordinary
0:05.7	personal stories from around the globe.
0:08.6	Search for LiveSless Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:15.8	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:21.2	I'm Robyn Brandt and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday 27th September these are our main stories.
0:28.0	North Korea says it will deport the American soldier Travis King who ran across the border
0:32.8	from the South in July.
0:34.9	The Exodus continues its reported almost half of the Armenian population is now thought
0:39.7	to have left Nagorno-Karabakh.
0:42.1	German police have raided homes and offices as they target an extreme neo-Nazi group.
0:50.2	Also in this podcast is this one way to try to treat Ukraine's war veterans.
0:57.0	For me, cannabis is helpful.
0:59.1	Without it I can't sleep, it helps me to relax.
1:02.2	I think it's important that everybody should have this.
1:08.4	Well let's start on the Korean Peninsula where an American soldier who crossed into North
1:12.7	Korea two months ago is now being expelled.
1:16.1	The fate of Travis King has been unknown since he ran across the border into North Korea
1:20.3	in July.
1:21.3	He'd been serving with US forces in the South.
1:24.3	In the last couple of hours, Pyongyang has now announced it will deport private King.
1:28.8	So what happens next?
1:30.2	Well our correspondent, Jim McKenzie, is in the South Korean capital soul.
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