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What do we know about the US soldier in North Korea and what might come next?

A look at Panmunjom, where officials say a U.S. soldier crossed into North Korea this week.

Travis King has been identified as the Black American U.S. Army soldier who crossed into North Korea, but questions remain why he did it.

"It affected Travis a lot,” King's uncle Carl Gates told The Daily Beast of his nephew's reaction to a young cousin's death.

The US military is attempting to assess the situation and establish the fate of King

From Otto Warmbier to Kenneth Bae: The US nationals arrested by North Korea

New details have emerged about a US soldier who crossed into North Korea on Tuesday – but his exact whereabouts remain a mystery since the secretive country hasn’t said a word about the incident.

Soldier, identified by US and Korean officials as Travis King, gave ‘out a loud “ha ha ha”’, member of tour group says

For the first time in decades a US soldier is believed to be in North Korean custody. That is a scenario that could cause a diplomatic headache for the United States while it, alongside ally South Korea, tries to keep pressure on Pyongyang as the isolated nation ramps up its ballistic missile tests and bellicose rhetoric.

A U.S. soldier who darted across the border from South Korea was detained in North Korea, in a rare case of an American service member being held in one of the worlds most isolated states. The incident has sparked a diplomatic emergency at a time of already strained ties between Pyongyang and Washington.