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Korean Policy and Culture: The US-Korea Policy Project

North Korea Uses Travis King Effectively for Propaganda

Is the media helping North Korea's push its propaganda campaign?

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Mitchell Blatt
Aug 16, 2023
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Travis King, a former private in the U.S. Army who had been convicted of assault, defected to North Korea on July 18, ten days after being released from a South Korean jail, and we haven't heard anything from him or from North Korea speaking on his behalf. Now North Korea has finally spoken on his behalf.

The rogue state claimed that King told them that …

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