Travis King: What's next for US soldier detained in North Korea? - BBC News

 a U.S soldier has been detained in North

Korea after intentionally crossing the

border from South Korea on a tour of the

demilitarized zone the U.S and North

Korea must now navigate some choppy

diplomatic Waters and history has a few

pointers as to how this might eventually

be resolved first off this is unlikely

to happen quickly in the past when

Americans have been held by the north

it's taken months of back Channel

negotiations to get them out recent

examples include the journalists Laura

Ling and Yuna Lee who entered the

country over a frozen River and spent

four and a half months in a North Korean

prison Jeffrey Fowle was detained for

leaving a Bible in a North Korean

bathroom he was freed after almost six

months the biggest problem was the

mental stream of this psychological

stream I mean not knowing what was

happening because the U.S and North

Korea don't have diplomatic relations it

means other countries like Sweden are

having to get involved I want to thank

the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang the

Scandinavian nation has a long history

of acting as an intermediary in 2019 it

helped free an Australian student and it

was instrumental in getting the American

student Otto warmbier back to the U.S

although he died after returning but it

may ultimately come down to some star

power in the past former presidents have

been roped in to negotiate we saw

standing before US

President Bill Clinton the journalists

Laura Ling and unilee were freed after

the ex-president Bill Clinton met then

leader Kim Jong-il in 2010 Jimmy Carter

visited Pyongyang to secure the release

of the teacher at Geelong Gomez but how

this case plays out will depend on how

valuable the North Koreans think Travis

King is and whether Travis King even

wants to return

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