North Korea confirms US Army defector Travis King is in country; said soldier wants refuge from ‘mistreatment,’ racism

North Korea lastly confirmed Tuesday that US soldier Travis King is being detained within the nation — practically a month after he bolted throughout the border.

King advised investigators that he had determined to enter North Korea as a result of he “harbored ailing emotions in opposition to inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination throughout the US Military,” officers stated.

The 23-year-old additionally expressed his willingness to hunt refuge in North Korea or a 3rd nation, saying he “was disillusioned on the unequal American society,” the North Korean official information company, KCN, stated in a press release.

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