The mother of the American soldier being held in North Korea lives in Racine.
The Pentagon says 23-year-old Private 2nd Class Travis King is being held in North Korea after he ran across the border yesterday. A number of reports say King was just released from a South Korean jail, he’d been held for two months for getting into a fight with some locals. He was supposed to fly back to the states, but skipped that flight and ran across the border during a tour of the area. His mom, Claudine Gates, says she never thought her son would do anything like that. She says she wants him to come home and be safe.
