In case you don’t know, Travis King is an American soldier who just recently fled to North Korea and the news here has been talking about him constantly.
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Honestly I was a little worried he was some r*pist escaping justice at first because of the way it was reported/people were talking about it, but from further reading it seems like it was just a bar fight? So probably pretty cool for him if he gets to stay there, although I’m sure he’ll miss his family
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true, although maybe he doesn’t have a good relationship with his family
I was thinking this too. Iirc the last person who left to DPRK wasn’t close to their family.
DPRK here I come! Gotta get me some of that sweet sweet juche.
There’s been a few threads about it here. I think it’s hilarious. In my head I’m imagining Frank Dux from Bloodsport evading the US government agents. But I wish the best for the guy, and I hope the DPRK turns this into a great propaganda piece. Send postcards to the pentagon every week of Travis chilling on a Korean beach.
Why did he defect?
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Not much but it’s sure funny how libs who are normally bending over to worship even open monsters in uniform are suddenly finding a bad apple in the military.
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Don’t think he’s ideologically motivated. And even if he is, the last American who tried to defect was turned away. Unfortunately I think he’s going to also be turned away. But no one can really say for sure yet.
