On Wednesday, the Korean Central News Agency said they have finished their investigation of Pvt. Travis King’s “illegal intrusion” into the country. The agency reiterated statements they have attributed to King before, saying he entered North Korea due to “ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” within the U.S. Army, and he was “disillusioned about the unequal U.S. society.”

“The relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the U.S. Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the republic,” the agency said, according to the Associated Press. It is currently unknown when or where King will be released.

[No receipt, no return? Kidding aside, this is pretty curious. Even if they didn’t like King, they could have held onto him as some sort of hostage; Biden’s dumb enough to trade for a deserter just like his former boss Barack Obama was. The North Koreans must really want to be rid of King, and maybe he’s luckier than he knows about that. He’ll have plenty of time at Leavenworth to mull that over, one presumes. — Ed]