{"id":1976265,"date":"2023-07-18T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-service-member-willfully-crossed-into-north-korea-pentagon-believes-hes-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:59:04","slug":"us-service-member-willfully-crossed-into-north-korea-pentagon-believes-hes-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-service-member-willfully-crossed-into-north-korea-pentagon-believes-hes-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"US service member intentionally entered North Korea, Pentagon believes they are detained."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-service-member-willfully-crossed-into-north-korea-pentagon-believes-hes-in-custody%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=1976265&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--><h2>An American\u200c Service \u2063Member \u2064Crosses Border into \u2063North Korea<\/h2>\n<p>An\u200c American \u200bservice \u200cmember has\u2063 made\u2064 headlines \u2062after willfully\u2062 crossing the\u2064 border \u2062between South and\u200d North Korea and is now in\u200d the custody of the North Korean authorities, \u200caccording \u200bto \u200cU.S.\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seven-days-in-january-all-living-former-secretaries-of-defense-warn-trump-over-election-fight\/\" title=\"Seven Days in January? All Living Former Secretaries of Defense Warn Trump Over Election Fight\">military officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier, \u200dwho\u2063 was assigned\u2062 to \u2062U.S. Forces Korea, embarked on a\u2062 Joint \u2063Security Area\u200b tour\u200b and\u200b entered \u200dNorth Korea without authorization on Tuesday. \u2064While the\u2062 Pentagon\u2063 has \u2064not yet released the soldier&#8217;s name, \u2063it is \u2063waiting to notify \u200dthe next of \u200bkin.\u2063 However, sources have identified the\u2062 individual\u200c as \u206223-year-old Pvt. \u200dTravis \u2062King.<\/p>\n<h3>White House Launches Program\u200c to \u2062Address Cybersecurity Risks<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s \u200ca lot that we&#8217;re\u200b still trying \u2064to learn, but\u2063 what we do know is that\u2064 one of our \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mccaul-believes-ndaa-will-become-a-bipartisan-bill\/\" title=\"Rep. McCaul expects the NDAA to gain bipartisan support.\">service\u200c members<\/a> who was \u200bon a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-service-member-willfully-crossed-into-north-korea-pentagon-believes-hes-in-custody\/\" title=\"US service member intentionally entered North Korea, Pentagon believes they are detained.\">tour\u2062 willfully<\/a>, and without\u2062 authorization, crossed the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-detains-us-citizen-who-entered-country-from-south-korea\/\" title=\"US citizen detained by North Korea after crossing from South Korea.\">military demarcation \u200cline<\/a>.\u2064 We believe \u2063that\u2063 he is\u2062 in DPRK \u2063custody,&#8221; \u2064Secretary of Defense \u200cLloyd Austin informed reporters. &#8220;And so we&#8217;re\u2063 closely \u2063monitoring\u200c and investigating \u200cthe situation and\u200b working to notify the soldier&#8217;s next of kin \u200cand \u200cengaging to address \u200bthis incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. is working with the North \u2062Korean military to resolve this issue,&#8221; stated Col. \u2062Isaac Taylor, a spokesman for\u2064 U.S. \u200dForces\u2064 Korea.<\/p>\n<p>According to ABC News, King had been released from \u200da \u200bSouth\u200c Korean detention facility \u2063after spending\u2063 approximately two\u2063 months there following an altercation \u2062with\u2062 locals. \u200cHe then spent about \u2062a week under observation\u200c at a U.S. base\u200d before \u2063completing the outprocessing procedures on Monday. He was\u200b scheduled to fly\u2062 back \u2062to the\u2062 United States, \u2064but he \u2062did not\u2063 board the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Since King \u200bhad \u200bserved his time \u200dand \u2062there was\u2062 no indication that\u200c he wouldn&#8217;t board the flight, there was \u200bno escort\u2064 to witness \u2064his absence \u2062from the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c Joint Security Area, part of the wider\u200c Demilitarized Zone\u2064 between\u2063 South and North Korea,\u2064 offers \u200ctours to \u200cthe public organized \u2064by \u200dthe \u2062United \u2063Nations Command. \u200cIn a \u2063statement, \u200dthe command confirmed that &#8220;a U.S. National \u200con a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, \u2064the Military Demarcation \u200cLine into \u200dthe Democratic People&#8217;s \u200bRepublic of Korea \u2063(DPRK).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click \u200c<a \u200dhref=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read\u2064 more\u200b from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. service member willingly crossed the South-North Korea border and is now held by North Korea. The soldier, from U.S. Forces Korea, entered North Korea without permission during a Joint Security Area tour. The Pentagon has not disclosed the soldier&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1976266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}