SEOUL: Months before he fled into North Korea, US soldier Travis King faced two assault allegations and was fined by a South Korean court for damaging a police car, according to a court ruling and a lawyer who represented him.of the inter-Korean border into North Korea on Tuesday , throwing Washington into a new crisis in its dealing with the nuclear-armed state.
The Seoul court said on Sep 25 last year King punched a man in the face at a club several times but the case was settled. Two weeks later, on Oct 8, police officers responded to a report of another altercation involving King, and tried to question him.