File footage of Travis King as North Korea acknowledges U.N. Command inquiry

Record ID: 1736495

  • Title: File footage of Travis King as North Korea acknowledges U.N. Command inquiry
  • Date: 3rd August 2023
  • Summary: RACINE, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES (RECENT - JULY 19, 2023) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF HOME OF TRAVIS KING STICKER ON WINDOW READING (English): "PROUD PARENT OF A U.S. ARMY SOLDIER!" EXTERIOR OF HOME OF TRAVIS KING VARIOUS OF WASHINGTON PARK HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE KING GRADUATED FROM IN 2020 SIGN READING (English): "WASHINGTON PARK HIGH SCHOOL" ENTRANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL PAJU, SOUTH KOREA (RECENT - JULY 20, 2023) (REUTERS) BARRICADE ON GRAND UNIFICATION BRIDGE SIGN ON BRIDGE READING (Korean and English): "GATEWAY TO UNIFICATION / BIGGER PAJU, CENTRE OF CITIZENS” BARRICADE ON BRIDGE BARBED WIRE BARRICADE ON BRIDGE
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2023 10:04
  • Keywords: DMZ North Korea Panmunjom South Korea The United States Travis King file the demilitarized zone
  • Location: SEOUL, PAJU, PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA / UNKNOWN LOCATION / RACINE, UNITED STATES
  • City: SEOUL, PAJU, PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA / UNKNOWN LOCATION / RACINE, UNITED STATES
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003171702082023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: North Korea has offered a very brief response to the United Nations Command about a U.S. soldier who dashed over the heavily-guarded border with South Korea on July 18 and was immediately taken into custody, the Pentagon said on Tuesday (August 1).
    Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said that North Korea only acknowledged the U.N. Command's request for information about U.S. Army Private Travis King and stopped short of offering detailed information about him.
    King sprinted into North Korea on July 18 while on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone on the border, landing the United States in a new diplomatic quandary with nuclear-armed North Korea.
    King, who joined the U.S. Army in January 2021, had served as a Cavalry Scout with the Korean Rotational Force, part of the decades-old U.S. security commitment to South Korea.
    (Production: Jimin Jung, Hyunyoung Yi)
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