The United Nations Command announced on Tuesday that communist North Korea detained an American citizen after he reportedly crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), the border between North and South Korea. A senior U.S. official told Fox News on Tuesday morning that the individual is an American soldier.
“A U.S. National on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident,” the U.N. Command said.
The KPA is the Korean People’s Army, the North Korean military.
The JSA is the Joint Security Area, a facility straddling the MDL in the village of Panmunjeom where North and South Korean border guards are stationed directly across from each other. The United Nations Command…
