'We Are Still Gathering All The Facts': White House Gives Update On Soldier In North Korea

good to see you too um could you walk us through uh what efforts have been made um over the last 24 hours or so um by the US government to contact the North Korean government about private paying um and has the U.S been able to ascertain where he's being held and his condition and is there any further understanding about his motivations to flee or his State of Mind at that moment so all good questions omra I have a couple things at the top just to share so that folks are all tracking as you know yesterday the Department of Defense notified the next of kin and so as you mentioned identify the individual as a U.S army private Travis King the White House Department of Defense the state department and the UN are all continuing to work together on this matter to ascertain the information the questions that you just asked me about his well-being and the whereabouts of private King we are still Gathering all the facts it is still very early on I believe the secretary himself of the Department of Defense said yesterday it might take us a little bit of time to ascertain all of that information but again we're Gathering all the facts but I want to be very clear that the Administration has and will continue to actively work actively work to ensure his safety and the return of of private King to us and to the fam to his family obviously so that includes what we're doing is Outreach to the administration of Sweden and also South to South Korea as well on this matter the Department of Defense as I mentioned yesterday is in is has been engaged and having Communications with its counterparts the kPa on the well-being of private King again we're working to ascertain all the facts all the information that we can and as soon as we have more to share we certainly will but our primary primary goal is to make sure that we ascertain his well-being get a sense of how he's doing but also clearly we are coming don't have anything to share on our conversation specifically on private King as it as it relates to his uh where he is and his well-being but I can tell you that we have been engaged since yesterday I think I mentioned this at the podium that we've been engaged with Sweden and also South Korea shopping um generally with the council and some of these guidelines have been rolled out to everyone's enrolled out today Republican lawmakers and some business group have rolled this criticism that these efforts will lead to Greater regulatory costs that leave the economy worse off how do you ensure um that any new regulatory burdens that don't undermine the savings they're trying to generate from consumers look so we are we're very confident in in the actions that we announced today and I just I also mentioned the other actions that we have announced about these hidden junk fees right and also the hearing aids I mean this is something the competition Council has been uh very zeroed in on and so we are confident that this will this will lead to the outcome that we certainly are trying to provide for the American people as I mentioned competition is a key pillar of the bionomics and it is part of the president's agenda we believe it's going to lower lower costs for American families in targeted areas when you think about those surprise medical bills I talked about the hearing aids and so that's our focus and I said this at the top and I'll say it again when it comes to capitalism without competition then it is in capitalism we're talking about exploitation and that's what the president is trying to deal with when you think about these big corporations that are gouging they're gouging uh Americans so the president's going to continue to do the work the way that we see this as it comes to the competitions uh the president's competition agenda we're talking about uh supporting pro pro small business uh pro-entrepreneur pro-worker and pro-consumer and that is We Believe by nomics in action and so we're confident in that

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Published: Thu Jul 20 2023