Re: "POWs in Pyongyang"

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

couldn't have been old enough to be in the korean war,Average Age U.S.
serviceman 19 yrs add 42-43 or 44 years,Someone missed the boat.
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Yared" <mikeyared@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: "POWs in Pyongyang"


> 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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