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SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Army Private Travis T. King had finished serving nearly two months in detention in South Korea and was being escorted to the airport to fly home and likely face disciplinary action. Instead, roughly 24 hours later, he sprinted into North Korea while on a civilian tour of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the border between the two Koreas. So began a bizarre odyssey that landed an active-duty American soldier in North Korean hands and created a fre