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Hi, Swan -
I believe there ARE several 'former residents' of
the US in North Korea. First of all, there were some defections during the
War and these people worked for the enemy and were not treated as POWs.
Our side had done the same, of course.
After the war, there were a dozen or so US military
personnel who went to NK for one reason or another.
It may be that some of these folks are still
alive. But do we want them back - even if NK would let them go or
the defectors wanted to come home?
ysk
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:08
AM
Subject: Re: GI's in North Korea
For years, there has been speculation that there
may be Americans still
alive after being captured in Korea and Vietnam.
This seems to be highly
unlikely.
We know a lot of
prisoners of war were killed shortly after they were
captured in Korea. The
same probably holds true for those in Vietnam.
Looking at it
from the enemy's point of view, this makes sense. Why would
they feed
captives when they were probably hard-pressed to find rations
for
themselves? Finding a place to hold these prisoners would be
problematic,
due to the fluid situation of the Korean War. Transporting
prisoners to
these places would present even more problems. From a tactical
point of
view, it would have made little sense to keep these captives
alive.
I find it more surprising that some POWs survived, than
some of them were
killed. I would be even more surprised to find that any
of them were held in
captivity for years after the war ended. For slave
labor? If this were the
case, few of them probably survived long under the
harsh conditions of such
captivity. Besides, the average citizen in North
Korea probably labors in
little better than slave labor conditions
anyway.
I think it is past time to put aside any hopes of
"freeing" any POWs. But
we should vow that if we ever go to war with
another country that will kill
prisoners we will win that war .... and we
will punish the killers.
----- Original Message -----
From:
"Mike Davino" <mdavino@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Cc:
<tbarker@kwp.org>; <hbarker@kwp.org>
Sent: Tuesday,
September 17, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: GI's in North Korea
>
According to this story, the possibility exists that
> US Korean War
POW's may still be alive in north Korea.
>
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020917/ap_on_re_as/us_nk
orea_1
>
>
The north Koreans have denied this for years, but as
> this story points
out, they also denied abducting any
> Japanese citizens and Kim Jong Il
now finally admits
> they have.
>
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=586&ncid=586&e=6&u=/nm/2002
0917/wl_nm/japan_korea_north_dc
>
>
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