U.S. soldier got in fights, damaged police car before dash to North Korea: court docs

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Months before he fled into North Korea, U.S. 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. The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of King, who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border into North Korea on Tuesday, throwing Washington into a new crisis in its dealing with the nuclear-armed state. King's motivations for his high-stakes gambit remain unclear. U.S. officials said he had finished serving ti...