{"id":148755,"date":"2023-10-20T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148755"},"modified":"2023-10-20T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T10:40:09","slug":"travis-king-charged-with-eight-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148755","title":{"rendered":"Travis King Charged with Eight Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148756 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/king-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/king-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/king-277x333.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/king.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Accused of Desertion<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Travis King charged with desertion for crossing into North Korea<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Story by Jordan Freiman<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Travis King, the U.S. soldier who crossed into North Korea from South Korea earlier this year, has been charged by the Army with several crimes, including desertion, assaulting other soldiers and officers, and soliciting and possessing child pornography, according to documents obtained by CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>King faces eight total charges, which also include making false statements and disobeying superior officers. A conviction on a peacetime desertion charge can come with a three-year prison sentence, according to The Associated Press.<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nKing, a Private 2nd Class in the U.S. Army who has served since 2021, entered North Korea on foot in July while he was on a guided tour of the South Korean border village of Panmunjom, which he joined after absconding from an airport in Seoul, where he was supposed to have boarded a flight back to the U.S. to face possible disciplinary action from the U.S. Army for actions taken before his alleged desertion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/travis-king-charges-north-korea-desertion\/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h\">CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pvt. King managed to turn a likely Admin separation into this litany of serious charges. I&#8217;m sure members of the 15th Military Police Brigade are looking forward to welcoming him to his new mailing address.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accused of Desertion Travis King charged with desertion for crossing into North Korea Story by Jordan &hellip; <a title=\"Travis King Charged with Eight Counts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148755\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Travis King Charged with Eight Counts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":148756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,225,15,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-army","category-blue-falcons","category-legal","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}