Private Travis King, the American GI who dashed across the heavily-guarded border into North Korea this week after his release from a South Korean prison, is now officially considered AWOL by the military, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
The Defense Department is working with intelligence agencies and countries like Sweden that often represent U.S. interests there for any scraps of information about Private King’s whereabouts. So far, the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said nothing publicly about the bizarre incident.
Private King, 23, spent almost 50 days in a South Korean prison after he failed to pay a $4,000 fine for damaging a police car. According to local media reports, he had been arrested after a fight at a nightclub. Private King was held from May 24 to July 10 at a penitentiary in Cheonan, about 50 miles south of Seoul, the South Korean capital. He was then released into the custody of U.S. military officials.
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