A troubled U.S. soldier who escaped to North Korea has been identified as Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King. King was being sent home from South Korea and faced disciplinary action.
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He will be the first black president of North Korea.
North Korea 😢..He's Done😢
He is in deep 💩
That guy ran from a south korean jail cell where he probably was properly fed, straight into a medieval dungeon where he now has to eat grass LITERALLY.
Two things may happen.
A. Forced labor. Hard end.
Or
B. They respect and are happy to have a b person. So they keep him for entertainment. Like speeches, sports and movies.
Like the two wytemen that live there and are movie stars. (Used for propoganda. So obviously- theyre always the bad guys.
What an amazing and empowered POC soldier. North Korea must do the right thing!
Now he rather lives like a king in the North than going back to his country. It tells you a lot about his country.
The stupidity of This tells me 2 things
1 he's American
2 he's black
Don't believe everything you read. Especially in this day and age of Chatgpt, Midjourney, and a cold war brewing between super powers. Deception is everywhere. Might be a lot more to this story.
They should have sent him back on MAC flight in cuffs…..
Wow! What would make a person decide that North Korea would be better living! Hmm!🤔
Most people don't understand that there people with mental illness that join the military all the time. There is no screening for it.
We should send all our degenerate kids there. Keep him. Too bad he won't get to read this, they don't have YouTube in NK. Wait, they don't even have internet there.
His dumb decision, his loss.
I got nothing else to say.
Ohhh the comments here lol more predictable than Big Ben.
Oh no. Now they will have to send Tier -1 Protesters such as BLM and ANTIFA Special Ops to get him back.
How are people that sneak into North Korea treated?
How are people that sneak into America treated?
Sorry, but he decided to go there. What happens to Pvt Travis King happens.
North Korea is a peaceful country that wants to be left alone and live in isolation… hence they fire ballistic missiles as a message: "don't f*ck with us". 😇🧨
Let the North keep him
Copy b9w we know
Code bame color of building. 9cer rawstsars
Guy is thinking North Korea prison is same as us prison
High~way to hell~
He was in South Korea and got in a bar fight. Then he kicked the door on a police vehicle that responded to the scene. He served over a month in jail for this. Then he was to fly back to the US to face more discipline. And then he does this? Keep him. I’m tired of our citizens, especially if you’re military, acting stupid. Other countries don’t play around like we do. He deserves to find out.
Ask your military instructor how stupid you are
And I want to ask the highest authority about this.
actually we should send them more of those
Trumps fault?
I hope he's enjoying the "Workers' Paradise".
Leave him alone
if trumpy was president he could get him back in 23.5 hrs
Please don’t trade anyone for him like the stupid ball player
Panmunjom tour might be something you cannot sign up immediately and go. He must have made a reservation days before risking losing the tour payment if he got on the plane. Smart dude. I wonder if there's any background check for tourists because as this incident showed it is easy to cross to North Korea. No fences or walls. Hope the Incheon airport and Panmunjom security camera footages will be released. Back in 1984, a Soviet man on Panmunjom tour defected to the south by crossing the military demarcation line and prompting North Korean soldiers to chase him by shooting and crossing the borderline.
Lol. He’s going to get a real world lesson on actual “oppression”. F him and F his mama
the military always warned us, because of aggression from NK, never to get close to the DMZ not even while we were off duty, just making us aware.
He’s on his own
If he did it on his own accord he can stay there.
I want to see the video footage of him running across. There is camaras pointed at every each of the boarder line.
He’s an E-2 Not a private 2nd class
Biden need to send in America’s top Black diplomat to N Korea, Dennis Rodman. Most countries don’t take Black American hostages because they know the USA doesn’t place much value on them.
He isn’t going to be laughing if and when he comes back. I wonder if he has mental illness.
Why North Korea
First of all, there is no such rank as private second class. You have private no insignia, you have private one stripe, you have private first class one stripe one chevron.