From being used as a propaganda tool to being propped up as a potential bargaining chip, the guesses about North Korea’s next steps vary widely given there’s little precedent for King&#…
earlier this week — with the US revealing the hermit kingdom has gone silent about his well-being and fate.
US soldier Travis King, 23, bolted into North Korea on Tuesday during a civilian tour of the tightly controlled Demilitarized Zone.A private with the Army’s 1st Armored Division, King had legal issues and wasand a possible discharge after serving two months in a South Korean prison on assault charges.
North Korea’s goal could be to create a dilemma for Washington in “choosing between U.S.-South Korean nuclear deterrence strategies and protecting its own citizen,” Yang said. “I cannot recall a case when they managed to use it as leverage to extract serious concessions, but domestically they have some gains because their propaganda presents it as another failure of another American provocation, with the American imperialists on their knees begging for forgiveness,” Lankov said.
Lankov said the chances are fairly low that King would face the same kind of fatal treatment given that the one-off event involving Warmbier only led to problems for North Korea. Thae Yong Ho, a former diplomat at the North Korean Embassy in London who defected to South Korea in 2016, said Pyongyang hasn’t ever released an American soldier who walked into the country voluntarily — but it was unclear whether they’d want to hold King for long anyway.
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