Mounting worries over US soldier King after silence from N. Korea FMTNews FMTWorld
Myron Gates, uncle of soldier Travis King, said his nephew was supposed to travel back to the US on Monday.
American officials remained stumped about why King ran across the border into North Korea. But Wormuth acknowledged he was likely worried about facing further disciplinary action from the Army upon his return home to the US. “We don’t know his condition. We don’t know where he’s being held. We don’t know the status of his health,” Singh said, describing his formal status in the military as “awol,” or absent without leave.
King was on a civilian tour of the Panmunjom truce village on Tuesday when he dashed across the Military Demarcation Line that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953. North Korea and the US have no formal diplomatic ties following years of international sanctions imposed on the reclusive state for its nuclear arms and missile programs that have drawn frequent UN condemnation.
Tensions are heightened on the Korean peninsula. The North has been conducting ballistic missile tests, the latest coinciding with the arrival in South Korea of a US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine for the first time since the 1980s.
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