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US soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea before being returned home, will plead guilty to desertion and other charges, his lawyer has said.

The army filed 14 charges against Mr King for the illegal crossing in July 2023. He plans to enter a guilty plea to five charges, including desertion and assault, as part of a plea deal.
"He will plead not guilty to the remaining offenses, which the Army will withdraw and dismiss," his lawyer Franklin Rosenblatt said in a statement to BBC News.

His plea and sentencing hearing will take place on 20 September at a military base in Fort Bliss, Texas.

"Travis’s guilty plea will be entered at a general court-martial," Mr Rosenblatt said in an emailed statement on Monday.

"There, he will explain what he did, answer a military judge’s questions about why he is pleading guilty, and be sentenced."

Mr King is grateful to from his family and friends and to all those who did not "pre-judge" him based on the allegations, the lawyer added.

Charges expected to be dismissed as part of the plea deal include possession of child pornography.

Pvt King has been in the army since January 2021 and was in South Korea as part of a unit rotation when he crossed into North Korea.

Prior to that incident, he had served two months in detention in South Korea on charges that he had assaulted two people and kicked a police car.

He was released from custody on 10 July - eight days before he crossed the country's border with Pyongyang.

His release deal was brokered by Swedish officials, who brought Pvt King to North Korea's border with China.

Little is known about how he was treated in North Korea, why he fled there in the first place, and why Pyongyang expelled him.
The US has said it made no concessions to secure his release.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dpyl5j5vmo

Ok

Man fled for his life by crossing borders and you now want to charge him for desertion. Abeg make dem free Reverend King (sorry Mr King).

GROSS INDISCIPLINE

Bros wan flex small.

Exactly how helinues and other ronu and agbado miscreants will flee to North Korea when the time comes..


Na wa ooo

Some people too do ooo

North Korea of all places. He must definitely be a deviant.

He is lucky North Korean didn't kill his ass

Of all place to flee to

Writerng Don see food today

De guy get liver . Of all places to desert to na North Korea he chosed

Which kind yeye soja be this?

Dishdel:
Racists will eat this one up

broad no be small, he shouldn’t have returned

E be like the guy get mental problem.

Father4all:
He is lucky North Korean didn't kill his ass

North Korea is safer than the White Supremacist American soldiers. He fled to North Korea cos of racism from the American Army. He knew he was safer in North Korea than his counterparts in the US Army.

"In saner countries " people, see as your God like American soldiers dey run 4 their life

Despite all that has happened, he’ll still face disciplinary charges against actions,
Meanwhile in my country Nigeria soldiers are entered into a secret court martial, while terrorist who have killed soldiers and innocent civilians are asked to recite the national anthem, then they’re reintegrated into the society as “Repentant Boko Haram ”.

Person wey wear shoe na hin know where dey pain am





Na some people dream be dat o to army for Yankee

He likely tasted chinko ponyor and fled that way for more. In the next eighteen years, about six to seven Blasian adults would be on the search for their American father.

LuQuLuQu:
Exactly how helinues and other ronu and agbado miscreants will flee to North Korea when the time comes..


Na wa oo


Some people too do ooo

Gbamsolutely

He is brown 🟤

THOSE PINK OR PALE SKINNED RACISTS WILL BE UNFAIR TO HIM.

You mean he deserted to hell when there was no war in the heaven where he was?

Zooposki:


North Korea is safer than the White Supremacist American soldiers. He fled to North Korea cos of racism from the American Army. He knew he was safer in North Korea than his counterparts in the US Army.

Na so. And North Korea expelled him.

North Korea might not be bad as portrayed by the West.

Morbeta11:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dpyl5j5vmo

Even obi is guilty of desertion from APGA to PDP to LP to....Gaol

Zooposki:


North Korea is safer than the White Supremacist American soldiers. He fled to North Korea cos of racism from the American Army. He knew he was safer in North Korea than his counterparts in the US Army.

its better to be with white supremacist than North Korea who don’t consider him human

Maria96:
its better to be with white supremacist than North Korea who don’t consider him human

You should keep abreast of world events. North Korea won’t kill him because of politics/putin/american. The white supremacists will kill him in a millisecond.

Cti28:
North Korea might not be bad as portrayed by the West.

They are not. It’s all mostly propaganda.

whatmoreng:


Na so. And North Korea expelled him.

He’s an American.