{"id":1976018,"date":"2023-07-18T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-national-believed-to-be-in-north-korea-custody-after-crossing-border-for-tour\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:13:37","slug":"us-national-believed-to-be-in-north-korea-custody-after-crossing-border-for-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-national-believed-to-be-in-north-korea-custody-after-crossing-border-for-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"US citizen reportedly held in North Korea after crossing border for tourism."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-national-believed-to-be-in-north-korea-custody-after-crossing-border-for-tour%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976018&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n \u2062 <\/p>\n<h2>U.S. \u2063National \u200dCrosses Border into North \u200dKorea \u200dWithout Authorization<\/h2>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u200b  \u2062  <\/p>\n<p>A\u200b U.S. national\u200b has crossed the inter-Korean border into \u2062North\u200d Korea\u200b without authorization while on\u2064 a\u2063 tour and is likely \u200cto be \u200bin the \u2063North&#8217;s\u200d custody, the United\u200b Nations Command that oversees \u200cthe demilitarized \u200dzone area\u2063 at the \u2062border said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> \u2062 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The person was\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigiegs-former-firm-shells-out-573-million-to-evade-lawsuits-over-role-in-opioid-crisis\/\" title=\"Buttigieg\u2019s Former Firm Shells Out 3 Million to Evade Lawsuits Over Role in Opioid Crisis\">taking part<\/a> in \u2063a\u200c tour to \u200dthe \u200bJoint \u200dSecurity\u200c Area \u2064on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">demilitarized zone<\/a> (DMZ) border separating the two Koreas since the end\u200d of the\u2064 1950-53 Korean War\u200c where\u2062 soldiers\u2063 from both sides\u200d stand guard.<\/p>\n<p>  \u200b<\/p>\n<p>South\u200c Korea&#8217;s Dong-a \u2063Ilbo daily, \u200bciting\u2064 South Korea&#8217;s \u2064army, identified the person as Travis King, a\u2064 U.S. \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-troops-in-germany-face-vaccination-delays\/\" title=\"US Troops in Germany Face Vaccination Delays\">army soldier<\/a> with the rank of private second class. \u2062The newspaper later deleted the name.<\/p>\n<p> \u200c <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could\u200c not immediately establish the identity of \u2063the person.<\/p>\n<p>\u200c \u200b <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A \u2062U.S. National on\u2064 a JSA \u2063orientation tour crossed,\u200c without\u200d authorization, the Military \u200cDemarcation Line \u200cinto the Democratic People&#8217;s\u200b Republic \u2063of Korea (DPRK),&#8221; the \u2064U.N. Command\u200d (UNC) said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he is \u200ccurrently\u2062 in\u2063 DPRK custody and \u2064are working \u200cwith our KPA counterparts to \u2064resolve this incident,&#8221;\u2064 it added,\u2064 referring to North \u2062Korea&#8217;s People&#8217;s Army.<\/p>\n<p> \u2064\u2062 <\/p>\n<p>The man was \u2063with \u2062a group of\u200b visitors, including civilians, to\u200b the Panmunjom \u2062truce\u2063 village when he suddenly bolted\u2062 over the\u200b brick line marking\u200b the border,\u2064 Donga \u200cand\u2062 the \u200bChosun\u200d Ilbo\u2063 daily newspapers reported,\u200d citing South \u200cKorean army\u2062 sources.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Isaac \u2062Taylor, spokesperson for the U.S. military in\u2064 South \u2062Korea (USFK)\u2063 and\u200b the U.N. \u2064Command, declined\u200d to confirm whether the individual\u200b was a\u2063 U.S. Army soldier\u200b or a \u2063member\u200b of \u2063USFK,\u200d saying he had nothing to add\u200b to the UNC statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still doing some\u200b research into this, \u200band \u200beverything that \u2062happened,&#8221;\u200b he told\u2062 Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<p>The White House, the \u2063U.S. State Department and the\u200d Pentagon \u2064did not \u2063immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p> \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>The crossing\u200d comes at\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-national-believed-to-be-in-north-korea-custody-after-crossing-border-for-tour\/\" title=\"US citizen reportedly held in North Korea after crossing border for tourism.\">sensitive time amid\u200b high tensions<\/a> on the Korean\u200d peninsula, with\u200b the arrival of a U.S. nuclear-armed \u2064ballistic missile \u200bsubmarine in \u2063South \u200dKorea \u200cfor\u2063 a rare visit in a warning to North Korea \u200dover its own military activities.<\/p>\n<p> \u200d \u200d<\/p>\n<p>North\u2062 Korea has \u2063been testing increasingly\u2064 powerful missiles capable\u2063 of carrying\u2063 nuclear warheads, including \u2063a new solid-fuel\u2063 intercontinental\u200c ballistic\u200c missile (ICBM)\u200c launched last week.<\/p>\n<p> \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>South \u2064Korea&#8217;s Defense\u200c Ministry \u200dsaid \u200bit\u2064 did not immediately\u200b have \u200bany information on \u2063the \u200dborder incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u200d  <\/p>\n<p>U.S.\u200c State Department travel \u200badvisory bans U.S. \u200cnationals\u200d from entering \u2064North Korea &#8220;due to the continuing\u2062 serious risk\u2064 of arrest and long term detention of \u200dU.S. nationals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c ban was\u2062 implemented after\u200c U.S. college student\u2063 Otto\u200c Warmbier was detained by North Korean \u200cauthorities while on\u2062 a tour\u200b of\u200d the \u2062country \u200din 2015.\u200b He \u200ddied\u200d in\u2062 2017, days after he\u2062 was released\u2064 from North Korea \u2064and \u2063returned to \u2064the United States in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2063<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200cby Hyonhee Shin,\u2063 Soo-hyang\u2064 Choi, Ju-min Park and Josh Smith; Writing \u2063by Jack\u200d Kim, Editing\u200b by Andrew Heavens \u200band Tomasz \u200bJanowski)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. citizen has entered North Korea without permission during a tour and is now believed to be in their custody, according to the United Nations Command. 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