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An urgent mission unfolds as the US tries to locate and retrieve soldier Travis T. King, who made a sudden dash into North Korea.

U.S. Army Private Travis T. King bolted across the DMZ into North Korea on Tuesday. His apparent defection is vexing for both sides, maybe more so for Pyongyang.

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

Seoul/Washington - An American soldier facing disciplinary action fled across the inter-Korean border into North Korea on Tuesday and was believed to be in North Korean custody, US officials said, creating a fresh crisis for Washington in its dealings with the nuclear-armed state. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed concern for the soldier, who the US military in Korea said joined...

PAJU, South Korea/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of an American soldier who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border into North Korea, throwing Washington into a new crisis in its dealing with the nuclear-armed state.