A US soldier facing disciplinary action fled across the inter-Korean border into North Korea on Tuesday and was believed to be in North Korean custody, US officials said, creating a fresh crisis for Washington in its dealings with the nuclear-armed state.
Colonel Isaac Taylor, a spokesperson for the US Armed Force in Korea, said a US service member on an orientation tour of the Joint Security Area between the Koreas "wilfully and without authorization crossed the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ."
South Korea's Dong-a Ilbo daily, citing South Korea's army, identified the person as Travis King, a US army soldier with the rank of private second class. The newspaper later deleted the name. CBS cited the witness as saying that military personnel reacted within seconds to the man's actions, but initially, there was confusion.
The crossing comes at a sensitive time amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the arrival of a US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine in South Korea for a rare visit in a warning to North Korea over its own military activities. The Joint Security Area is in the demilitarized zone border that has separated the two Koreas since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
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