# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/travis-king
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:01.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/travis-king"
name: "Travis King"
slug: "travis-king"
description: "Travis Travale King is a former United States Army soldier known for crossing over the Military Demarcation Line in the Joint Security Area (JSA) into North Korea on July 18, 2023, while on a civilian tour of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He was 23 years old at the time of his crossing into North Korea."
tagline: "American soldier who defected to North Korea"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "2000-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.81
  momentum:             6.509316770186337
  historical:           8.454638666666666
  currentAttention:     36.16287094547965
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E6%8B%89%E7%BB%B4%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E9%87%91"
    title: "特拉维斯·金"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A4%DB%8C%D8%B3_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "تراڤیس کینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King"
    title: "Travis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King"
    title: "Travis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King"
    title: "Travis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8A%B8%EB%9E%98%EB%B9%84%EC%8A%A4_%ED%82%B9"
    title: "트래비스 킹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King_(militair)"
    title: "Travis King (militair)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_King"
    title: "Travis King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BD%D2%91"
    title: "Тревіс Кінґ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120742332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump