King is being held in Communist North Korea after running across the border from the south.
Last month, the 23-year-old soldier was supposed to board a flight back to the U.S. after serving time in a South Korean jail following a physical altercation.
But instead of getting on that plane, Pentagon officials said King left the airport and joined a tour of the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, the heavily fortified border area that separates North and South Korea. King was reportedly photographed, dressed in black, moments before authorities said he deliberately sprinted across the border."Travis would not just go over the border like that. He's the type of kid, he would've wanted to come home," Gates said.His uncle told ABC he was experiencing racism during his military deployment, and after he spent time in jail, he didn't sound like himself.
"I was like, 'are you OK?' and he's telling me, 'no, they're trying to kill me.' He was saying things like, said they're racist. It made it seem like something was going on with him," Myron Gates said.
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