"POWs in Pyongyang"

[Mike Yared <mikeyared@yahoo.com>]

from http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm

    POWs in Pyongyang 
    We have obtained a Defense Intelligence Agency
report that states four American prisoners of war from
the Korean War were sighted in North Korea in 1993. 
A North Korean defector reported seeing the four POWs
at the Changkwangsan Hotel coffee shop in Pyongyang in
August or September of 1993. The POWs were described
as being in their 50s or 60s and were under the
control of the North Korean military's reconnaissance
bureau. They were in the North Korean capital to give
a lecture on American "armed power." The POWs were
being transported in a Mercedes-Benz. The report,
declassified at the request of the Coalition of
Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIAs, also said
that as of 1990 at least 10 U.S. prisoners, including
"an unknown number of black men," were being held by
North Korea in the Sungho district of Pyongyang. Also,
in 1986 two Americans were spotted in Pyongyang
teaching "western customs, western lifestyle and
English" at a North Korean Communist Party school. 
The defector stated that he estimates that as many 60
American POWs are in North Korea. The declassified DIA
report comes after admissions by North Korea that its
intelligence services kidnapped Japanese nationals and
held them for decades. Japan's government wants the
issue of its abducted nationals to be raised during
the six-party talks with North Korea on its nuclear
program. American POW activists want the issue of
missing American soldiers in North Korea raised at the
Beijing talks as well, we are told. 

nothing at http://www.coalitionoffamilies.org/
Mike

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