Re: "POWs in Pyongyang"

[robert guertin <wanaki@infionline.net>]

Excellent point Les ! Late sixties early seventies would make more sense.

Les Hanson wrote:

> 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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