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POPULAR FRONT

The US Soldiers who Fled to North Korea // PREVIEW

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This is a preview for a Patreon only episode.

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Patreon.com slash popular front.

0:18.0

Private second class Travis King he's basically he's ran across the DMZ and he's in North Korea he's basically

0:28.1

ran away to North Korea but he's a US soldier what's happened? Yeah so it's kind of a weird situation.

0:35.0

He, very recently within the past week,

0:38.0

just kind of sprinted across the DMC, people were saying.

0:42.0

He had in, I believe... across the DMC people were saying.

0:42.8

He had in, I believe, September of 2022,

0:47.0

he was arrested by Korean police for an assault case at a bar.

0:51.8

He was at a bar and somebody didn't give him a drink he wanted or something

0:56.8

like that so he you know attacked him he punched him in the face. Police came and

1:01.6

apprehended him and then they take him outside he's he kicks the police car he's saying all sorts of like racist stuff against

1:08.4

Koreans and Korean police and Korean soldiers and so he gets he gets locked up essentially for

1:15.3

Korean the Korean court records were saying about two months. He gets out I believe he got out on July 10th and he was being escorted to the

1:28.2

Inchon International Airport by US military police. He was going to go back to America.

1:32.1

They planned on having him separated from the United

1:35.2

States military. They were going to kick him out. He was going to face some sort of punishment in the

1:39.8

U.S. presumably. And he, where it gets crazy as he gets to the airport he apparently goes up to

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