
North Korea says it will expel Travis King, U.S. soldier who ran across border in July
CBSN
North Korea announced Wednesday that it will expel Travis King, the American soldier who crossed into the country two months earlier, according to the country's state-run media. North Korea's KCNA television network said King had confessed to illegally entering the country.
"The relevant agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [North Korea] decided to expel Travis King, an American soldier who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, in accordance with the laws of the Republic," the network reported.
It was not immediately clear when King might be deported from North Korea, or where the isolated nation would send him.

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