Ready to go in...
Posted on 10/26/2005 9:48:47 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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.
uncivilized...
It's a quibble but the war is still on; all there is is an armistice.
are they talking about Americans here !???
Well, at least I'm sure they never put panties on their heads....
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Don`t know if they are Amercian GI`s.
The story seems to imply they are South Korean GI`s.
It's a quibble but the war is still on - to quibble further it is a police action
My father fought in the Korean War and was wounded in service. I recently purchased a book on the subject by Donald Goldstein and he was impressed by the thoroughness of the research.
"The admission renews pressure on the North to explain its practice - carried out over decades - of seizing people it felt might be useful."
Typical behavior by Communist psychopaths. I wonder when I am going to start seeing people wearing Kim Jong-il or Kim Il-sung T-shirts.
Nope, no Kim Jong-Il T-shirts are in the offing. Even your typical hippie lefty wouldn't want a shirt with that hair-do on it.
" I`m so wone-wee, oh so wone-wee"
Ready to go in...
That's funny, when he was called to serve he left for Canukistan and when Mr. Peanut(brain) gave out an amnisty he came back to fight the war on the silver-sceen.
Ain't no irony like Hollyweird irony.
yes, kind of vague , isn't it ?
Barbaric! 52 years still in captivity. No explanation can be justified for N. Korea to do this.
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