Communist North Korea has just revealed why former US Soldier Travis King defected last month while touring the DMZ.
In short, they claim he was upset over inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination in the Army.
Here’s more via Daily Mail:
North Korea said that Travis King confessed to crossing into the country because of mistreatment and ‘racial discrimination’ inside the US Army.
The report came from North Korean state media on Wednesday, and is the first public acknowledgement of the American’s defection into the North’s territory by North Korean.
The US soldier, Private Travis T. King, fled to North Korean territory while he was on a civilian tour of the Joint Security Area along the heavily fortified border between the North and South in July.
US officials say they believe he crossed intentionally, one day after he was supposed to report to an Army base in the US.
North Korean investigators now say they have concluded that King crossed the border deliberately, illegally, and with the intent to stay in the country or flee to a third country.
Wednesday’s report from state news agency KCNA added that King fled to the North due to the ‘inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army.’
‘During the investigation, Travis King confessed that he had decided to come over to the DPRK (the initials of the North’s official name) as he harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army,’ KCNA reported.
Here’s the kicker:
‘He also expressed his willingness to seek refugee in the DPRK or a third country, saying that he was disillusioned at the unequal American society.’
Well if he wanted ‘equality’ in society he’s sure gonna get it in North Korea, where everyone there is equally treated like garbage. Unless of course you worship Kim Jong Un. Which he might do because he sounds like a wannabe commie.
Seriously, this guy is an idiot. He was fined for assault in South Korea and detained there for less than two months. He was set to get on a flight back to the states where he’d face a hearing for his actions. After whatever possible punishment, he’d probably have been kicked out of the Army and set free to live his life. Now he’s stuck in North Korea.