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This is franky very odd!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66233797
We think he's defected or defective?
Probably just a bit of a dumbass...
See also people: scratching thier names into the colleseum, and stealing bricks from Machu Pichu.
Why am "I " in trouble? (shocked pikachu face)
Private is basicaly the lowest ranking US military rank, I'd be supprised if he can even spell his own name.
I assume "adding that he was being escorted back to America for disciplinary reasons" probably means he was heading back for a court martial for something reasonably serious.
So I would go with he figured defecting was preferable.
being escorted back to America for disciplinary reasons
Those reasons could quite reasonably be him playing hop-scotch over the north/south Korea border 'as a jolly jape'.