
US military tries to locate soldier who fled to North Korea
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This is U.S. army private Travis King. The U.S. military on Wednesday was still scrambling to determine what happened to him after he apparently - without authorization - crossed a heavily guarded border into North Korea.
"Someone ran close to me very fast and I thought, what is going on? I don't think anyone who was sane would want to go to North Korea, so I assumed it was some kind of stunt.”
Sarah Leslie was on a civilian tour of the border between North and South Korea with King when he took off.
"It all happened pretty quickly. I probably only saw him running for like a few seconds and that's all it would have taken to get across the border. And then, you know, a couple of seconds after I saw him, that's when the soldiers shouted and started running aft...