#englishnews #northkorea #southkorea <br /><br />News Article :-<br />North Korea will expel a US soldier who crossed into the country through the de facto heavily armed Korean border earlier this year.<br /><br />The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said on Wednesday that North Korean authorities have finished their questioning of Travis King.<br /><br />It said that he confessed to illegally entering the North because he harbored “ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” within the US Army.<br /><br />After completing its investigation, the “relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the U.S. Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the Republic”, KCNA said, using the North’s formal name.<br />The agency did not say when authorities plans to expel King.<br /><br />King bolted into the North in July while on a tour of the southern side of an inter-Korean truce village. He was serving nearly two months in a South Korean prison for assault.<br /><br />King was released on July 10 and was being sent home on Monday to Fort Bliss, Texas, where he could have faced additional military discipline and discharge from the service.<br /><br />He was escorted as far as customs but left the airport before boarding his plane. It was unclear how he spent the hours until joining a tour in the border village of Panmunjom during which he ran across the border.<br /><br />The border between the two Koreas is heavily fortified but at the Joint Security Area, the frontier is marked only by a low concrete divider and is relatively easy to cross, despite the presence of soldiers on both sides.
