Posted on 10/25/2005 6:28:06 PM PDT by blam
PoWs from Korean War still held after 52 years
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
> (Filed: 26/10/2005)
North Korea admitted yesterday that it was still holding prisoners from the Korean War as well as South Koreans it had abducted since.
Ten PoWs are still in the North, 52 years after the war ended, the South Korean ministry of unification was told in response to inquiries about 103 missing people. Another 11 people who had been abducted were also being held.
Six PoWs and 10 abducted prisoners whose existence was previously unknown had died in captivity. The rest were unaccounted for, the ministry said.
Pyongyang said the 21 would be included in the next re-union for relatives separated by the peninsula's division, planned for next month.
The admission renews pressure on the North to explain its practice - carried out over decades - of seizing people it felt might be useful.
In 2002, it confirmed long-held suspicions that it had kidnapped Japanese citizens to train future spies. Many of the South Korean victims were fishermen - their boats seized by the North's navy.
Considering how badly they treated that American who voluntarily defected to them I hate to think how they may be treating POWs.
Then tell Syria that were syrioso!
Releasing POW's and kidnap victims may be a good first step before any more nuke talks.
Where's the UN when you need it?
It was a UN war and UN negotiated cease fire... good question.
It will help him with the US as much as it helped DPRK with Japan, when 2 years ago they admitted that they had kidnapped and were holding Japanese there.
Why does the man seem to HUNGER for trouble...?
How insane is that?
And those people are extremely diplomatic....
And we are doing what about this (they still have the Pueblo too)?
What Nationality are the POW's ? Are any of them American?, If so we should go in and get them whatever is the best way.
I doubt that any are Americans. IMO all will prove to be South Koreans or other UN soldiers or spies.
In the enemy camp, where else?
Wow! And all the press can talk about is the 2000 dead in Iraq!
I wonder if the left still considers these people innocent?
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