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From: Bob Necci & Carol Hrdlicka, Andi Wolos
(POW-MIA FaxNetwork)

Re: N. Korea Claims S. Korea Holds POWs

Date: May 2, 1997

News reports out of communist North Korea tell an unbelievable story.

The DPRK is claiming that South Korea has violated NORTH KOREAN POWs rights. The abuses are against 3 SURVIVING POWs from the Korean War. This is the very same DPRK that has steadfastly maintained that NO American or South Korean POWs were held back or remain in North Korea.

The Korean Measure Committee for Rescuing Unconverted Long-Term Prisoners in South Korea released a statement exposing the south Korean authorities' human rights abuses against the men, who, according to the DPRK, have been held as POWs for almost 50 years.

In closing, the news report states:"We express the belief that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and other international and national human rights bodies and democratic organizations and the world's progressive people will make a case of the south Korean authorities' human rights abuses against the Pows and strongly urge the repatriation of the three old men."