White House Comments on North Korea's Claim U.S. Soldier Travis King Ran There Because of ‘Racial Discrimination’
North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after becoming disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army.
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00:00 We would caution everyone to consider the source here.
00:04 That is incredibly important as we're hearing the report.
00:07 We can't verify the comments that are being attributed to Private King, obviously.
00:12 We remain focused on his safe return, as we have been saying for these past several weeks,
00:16 and we are working through all available channels to achieve that outcome.
00:23 None of it, it doesn't change anything.
00:25 We want to make sure that he gets home safely.
00:28 He returns to his family safely, and that's going to be our focus.
00:32 So I don't have anything else to share besides what the Department of Defense was able to
00:35 confirm about a week or two ago.
00:37 What I can say, it doesn't change anything.
00:39 We want him to come home safely.
00:41 We're going to certainly, we're going to make sure that we try to do this work through all
00:45 available channels to make that happen, and that is certainly our focus here.