[ANALYSIS] Pyongyang uses Travis King as tool to counter US

North Korea's claim that “racial discrimination and unequal American society” drove U.S. soldier Travis King to defect to the North is seen as a message firing back at U.S.-led plans to scale up international scrutiny against Pyongyang's human rights record, analysts said Wednesday.

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