MORE: Travis King, Army soldier who ran into North Korea, to plead guilty to desertion: Attorney The plea deal was first ...

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Travis King’s attorney, Franklin D. Rosenblatt, told The Associated Press that King intends to admit guilt to a total of five military offenses, including desertion and assaulting an officer.

The US soldier who ran across the demilitarised zone into North Korea has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for desertion ...

Travis King was facing 14 charges related to him ... But he pleaded guilty to just five – desertion, assault on a noncommissioned officer, and three counts of disobeying an officer – as ...

An American soldier who fled to North Korea last year will plead guilty to desertion at a court martial as part of a plea deal, his lawyer said. Private Second Class Travis King ran across the ...