There's a little lack of interagency cooperation about how both agencies can deal with this."Īlso complicating the situation is King's reported criminal conduct.
"Usually, when there's diplomatic communication, it's the State Department, it's under their responsibilities. it's under responsibility," Kim said in an interview with. "Travis is a soldier, so I guess that from the State Department's perspective. Miller said the Defense Department reached out to "counterparts" in the North Korean Army on Tuesday, but his "understanding is that those communications have not yet been answered."Īnother defense official said that in addition to the Pentagon and the State Department, the United Nations and the White House were also involved in the effort to learn more about King's situation.Įllen Kim, a senior fellow and the deputy director of the Korea chair at the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies, told that King's status as an active-duty soldier may have unnecessarily complicated the initial efforts to learn more about his situation. "And I'm hoping that they let him come home and he'll be back around his mama or get him some help or something like that. "I know he's in a real bad place, a bad situation," King's uncle, Myron Gates, told The Associated Press. King's family spoke out about the incident and his safety on Wednesday.
American captives have not been well-treated in North Korean custody.
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