By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 8:59 PM, Updated yesterday at 9:31 PM
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Two days after his arrest in North Korea, the United States is still without news of their soldier.
A senior US military official said on Thursday,very concernedby fate andhow could be treatedthe US soldier detained in North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea.
«I am very, very concerned that Private (Travis) King is in the hands of the North Korean authorities (…) I am concerned about how he might be treated“said Secretary of the Armed Forces Christine Wormuth at the security forum in Aspen, Colorado (west).
“Multiple contact attempts”
She cited the case of Otto Warmbier, an American detained in North Korea for a year and a half before being released in 2017 in a coma and who had died six days after returning to the United States. Travis King, a second-class soldier enlisted since 2021, was due to return to the United States to face disciplinary proceedings when he left the airport, joined a group visiting the demilitarized zone between South Korea and North Korea, then crossed the border, she said.
Christine Wormuth clarified that the United States was still without news of their soldier on Thursday, despite multiple attempts to contact him, in particular via the United Nations, in an attempt to “to bring back” in the USA. “At this point not much is known and I don’t think we were able to successfully contact the North Korean authorities.“, she acknowledged.
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Il «assaulted a person in South Korea, was detained by the South Korean government, and was going to return to the United States to face the consequences in the military. I’m sure he was faced with this“, she said. “He may not have had his mind straight, frankly, but we don’t know.“, she said again.
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2023-07-20 18:59:30
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