The United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea have begun discussing the case of Travis King, the American soldier who crossed into the North last week, the deputy commander of the United States-led command that oversees the Korean Armistice Agreement said on Monday.
King, a US Army private serving in South Korea, sprinted into North Korea on July 18 while on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone on the inter-Korean border.
Conversations between the UNC and North Korea’s military were initiated and conducted through a mechanism established under the armistice, according to Lieutenant General Andrew Harrison, a British Army officer serving as deputy commander of the multinational force.
North Korea’s state media, which have usually commented whenever US nationals have been detained, have remained tight-lipped over King’s crossing into the country.
