S. Korean abducted in 1975 escapes from N. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea: A South Korean abductee has escaped from North Korea after more than 30 years in the communist state and is now under South Korean protection in China, an official said Monday.
Yoon Jong-soo, 65, fled the North in May and entered the South Korean consulate in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang later that month, said Choi Sung-yong, head of a group of relatives of South Koreans allegedly kidnapped by the North.
However, Yoon’s North Korean wife and daughter were arrested and under investigation, said Choi, who helped Yoon escape.
“South Korea and China have been in talks over Yoon and China is not opposed to sending him back to South Korea,” the Foreign Ministry official said. He asked not be named, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
The abductee ended up in the North when his fishing boat and 32 other crew members were seized off South Korea’s east coast in 1975. So far, three former shipmates have returned to South Korea in recent years.
“I am overwhelmed with joy and my heart is beating since I came to know that my younger brother is still alive,” Yoon’s elder brother Yoon Joo-seung told The Associated Press.
Yoon is among 480 South Korean civilian abductees, mostly fishermen, who are believed still alive in the North.
Besides the civilian abductees, South Korea also estimates that 560 soldiers from the 1950-53 Korean War are still alive in the North. North Korea denies holding any prisoners of war, and claims that civilians voluntarily defected.
In a departure from a decade of liberal rule, new conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has asked North Korea to consider sending home prisoners of war and captured civilians in return for receiving humanitarian aid from Seoul.
(AP)
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Kim Jong Il is a coward and a vile piece of animal dung. Someone please take him out. Stop giving American taxpayer money to NK. They are lying, cheating, inhuman heaps of whale shit.
When will the USA stop taking crap off of these lowlife dictator bastards.
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June 9th, 2008 at 10:30 amLove the bobble-heded “Dear Leader”. It’d be a nice target to aim at for my next trip to the range…
Great article Deathstar. That dude is one smart Iraqi.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:53 amI have read Kim Jong-il is a big fan of Hollywood movies. I was sure hoping this one got plugged into his DVD before he caught wind of its content.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pmLee Myeong Bak is the new conservative president of Korea and his party is currently cowering to the attacks of leftists who have for 1 month been holding violent protests pretending it is over the fact that the new president recently allowed Beef imports from the US again. They say our beef is tainted which is an excuse since our standards for beef are rated higher than korea. Its an excuse really that many well meaning koreans are buying into.
I have come to the conclusion that many koreans reflexively side with communist style policies. this country isnt really capitalistic. Lee myeongbak is a former corporate CEO with private and political accomplishments that makes working class people envious and suspicious. He was overwhelmingly elected after 5 years of a liberal president who even says these protests are BS. they have so many protectionist policies yet they still complain about free trade agreemnets with the US.
I was heartend recently that some korean supporters of the president have finally decided to do counter demonstrations against the unionist thugs who have been violent this past month.
Souht koreans, japanese and north koreans have been escaping alot with many south koreans helping them to do so. Its a prison up there and aparently some leftists down here long to bring that misery to the south.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:10 am