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I don't really give a bleep if Loomer is a dude or not, but if ever there was a photo that had me convinced Loomer is a dude, this one is it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12310429/North-Korea-arrests-soldier-crossed-border-demilitarized-zone-without-authorization.html
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North Korea arrests US soldier who crossed the border from demilitarized zone during tour
The last recorded person involved in a border crossing was shot and killed
Cases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea have been rare
By CHRISTIAN OLIVER
PUBLISHED: 06:37 EDT, 18 July 2023 | UPDATED: 09:13 EDT, 18 July 2023
An American soldier has been detained in North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea during a tour in the region.
The soldier has been named as private second class Travis King. The UN Command says it is now trying to negotiate his release.
King was taking part in a Joint Security Area Tour which takes tourists through the area between North and South Korea.
It is beyond the heavily fortified border that permits entry from the Military Demarcation Line.
'A U.S. National on a JSA (Joint Security Area) orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK),' the U.N. Command said on Twitter.
'We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident,' it added, referring to North Korea's People's Army.
The man is the first American since Bruce Byron Lowrance in 2018 to be detained by North Korean forces. Lowrance was held for a month after he illegally entered the country from China.
The Military Demarcation Line marks the border between North and South Korea and has been in place since the Armistice signed in July 1953. The Korean Demilitarized Zone sits either side of the border, stretching 2km each way.
Since 1950, the United Nations Command - a multinational security effort - has patrolled the area with the aim of maintaining the armistice and to facilitate diplomacy between the two countries.
Cases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea are rare, though more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to avoid political oppression and economic difficulties at home since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
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Panmunjom, located inside the 248-kilometer (154-mile) -long Demilitarized Zone, was created at the close of the Korean War. Bloodshed and gunfire have occasionally occurred there, but it has also been a venue for numerous talks and a popular tourist spot.
The area is jointly overseen by the U.N. Command and North Korea. No civilians live at Panmunjom.
This is the last recorded border incident involving an individual since September 2020 when a South Korean official of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries disappeared from his patrol boat that was six miles north of the Northern Limit Line - a disputed maritime demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between the North and South.
Lee Dae-jun was found wearing a life jacket by the North's own patrol where he was shot and killed by Pyongyang troops and his body burned over fear of coronavirus, South Korean intelligence said.
South Korea’s Ministry of Defense called the killing an 'atrocious' act and called on the North to punish those involved.
North Korea's Kim Jong-un subsequently issued a rare personal apology following the incident. The despot told South Korea's then-President Moon Jae-in that the 'disgraceful affair' should have never happened.
In November 2017, North Korean soldiers fired 40 rounds as one of their colleagues raced toward freedom. The soldier was hit five times before he was found beneath a pile of leaves on the southern side of Panmunjom. He survived and is now in South Korea.
There have been a small number of U.S. soldiers who fled to North Korea during the Cold War, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. He appeared in North Korean propaganda films and married a Japanese nursing student who had been abducted by North Korean agents. He died in Japan in 2017.
In recent years, some Americans have been arrested in North Korea after allegedly entering the country from China. They were later convicted of espionage and other anti-state acts, but were often released after the U.S. sent high-profile missions to secure their freedom.
In 2018, North Korea released the last three known American detainees as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was engaged in nuclear diplomacy with then-President Donald Trump. The high-stakes diplomacy collapsed in 2019 amid wrangling over U.S.-led sanctions on North Korea.
Tuesday's border crossing happened amid high tensions over North Korea's barrage of missile tests since the start of last year.
The United States earlier Tuesday sent a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time in decades as deterrence against North Korea.
It comes as the allies warned North Korea that any use of the North's nuclear weapons in combat would result in the end of its regime.
Periodic visits by US nuclear ballistic missile-capable submarines to South Korea were one of several agreements reached by the two countries' presidents in April in response to North Korea's expanding nuclear threat.
They also agreed to establish a bilateral Nuclear Consultative Group and expand military exercises.
The USS Kentucky, an Ohio-class submarine, arrived at the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday afternoon, South Korea's defence ministry said.
It is the first visit by a US nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea since the 1980s, it said.
>Imagine writing so much, just to tell people that you don't care
The never ending tranny cycle of self indulgence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12311025/Trump-claims-hes-officially-TARGET-January-6-investigation.html
Trump braces for an imminent INDICTMENT as he announces he is officially a target in the January 6 investigation: Ex-President says he is expecting to be arrested again and tears into 'deranged' Jack Smith
Trump revealed he has received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith
Smith probing efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn election
Trump claims he has four days to respond and is facing 'arrest and indictment'
By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 09:38 EDT, 18 July 2023 | UPDATED: 09:58 EDT, 18 July 2023
Donald Trump revealed that he has received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith regarding the Justice Department's January 6 investigation.
On his Truth Social account, Trump claimed he faces 'arrest and indictment' and was only given four days to respond to the letter, which he received Sunday night.
He said he was offered a chance to speak to the grand jury, which meets at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C., later this week.
'Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden's DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,' the former president wrote.
Smith is leading the Justice Department's investigation of attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Smith, as part of his probe, has examined testimony and documents related to fundraising, Trump's rally that preceded the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, and communications between Trump associates and election officials in battleground states.
In December, Smith subpoenaed local election officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania, asking for communications with or involving Trump, his 2020 campaign aides and a list of allies who were involved in his efforts to try to overturn the results of the election.
It's unclear what aspect of Smith's probe that Trump could be indicted in but the letter suggests charges are imminent.
Trump, in his statement, repeated his claim that he is a victim of a 'witch hunt' and a weaponized federal government.
He wrote that 'they have now effectively indicted me three times…. with a probably fourth coming from Atlanta' and added in capital letters, 'This witch hunt is all about election interference and a complete and total (political) weaponization of law enforcement!'
The former president is scheduled to travel to Iowa on Tuesday, where he is taping a town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Trump was indicted last month on 37 felony counts alleging he illegally kept classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and refused government demands to give them back. Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta, who was also charged, have both pleaded not guilty.
A hearing in Trump's classified documents criminal case is set for Tuesday in Florida federal court.
Trump's attorneys have asked this any trial in that case take place after the 2024 election. Trump is leading the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Smith's prosecutors oppose that bid.
The former president also is under criminal investigation by a Georgia state prosecutor for his attempt to get election officials there to reverse his loss to Joe Biden in that state.
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they look incredibly similar to me.
not related but sometime facial features can be very telling.
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