Officials say the soldier “willfully and without authorization,” becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years. An American has crossed the heavily fortified border from South ...

ABC News has learned that the U.S. soldier was identified as Travis King. LONDON -- An American soldier who had just been released from a South Korean detention facility fled across the border to ...

American soldier Travis King is en route to the US after being freed by North Korea By Kevin Liptak , Haley Britzky , Oren Liebermann , Betsy Klein , Rob Picheta , Gawon Bae , Alex Marquardt and ...

Mr Martinez was quietly allowed to leave North Korea shortly afterwards. Yet Mr King’s status as a serving and apparently sane American soldier may make him a richer prize. When the North ...

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea stayed silent Wednesday about the detention of an American soldier who sprinted across the Koreas’ heavily fortified border as other members of his tour group ...

The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago was whisked to a Texas Army base Thursday for medical checks and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday expressed deep concern about the well-being of a U.S. soldier who bolted across the heavily armed North Korea border earlier this week as North ...

new video loaded: American Soldier ‘Willfully’ Crossed Into North Korea, Austin Says transcript We’re very early in this event, and so there’s a lot that we’re still trying to learn.

An American soldier who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison, fled across the heavily armed border into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American soldier crossed the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea “willfully and without authorization,” U.S. officials said Tuesday ...

US Army Private Travis King arrived back on United States soil Thursday after being returned to American custody ... to be the first US soldier to cross into North Korea since 1982.