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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: North Korean and American POWs

Date: December 15, 1998

MSNBC is providing a thought provoking article on the 45 year old mystery of American POWs in North Korea.

According to the points raised:
South Korea announced that two mor South Korean POWs escaped 40 years of slave labor camp work in the North. This now makes five men who escaped captivity.The men ar being debriefed by Souht Korean national security officials.US official say that the escapees seem 'genuine' and that raises some 'troubling questions.'As a result of the crumbling of Soviet domination, evidence has been found that suggests hundreds of US personnel were 'left behind' and 'written off' by US officials.Philip Corso is quoted as saying at least '500 wounded and ill POWs' were never repatriated.A North Korean defector stated he has seen elderly white and black men in a high security camp that he had visited.The 1955 USAF document that lists 137 captured men who did not return at the end of hostilities.Testimony of Jan Sejna with respect to the medical experimentation (quite possibly terminal experimentation) on US POWs from the Korean and Vietnam Wars.Little progress has been made with the former Soviets to 'clear up' the evidence of US personnel in Soviet satellite and Far East territories.US Defense officials announced an agreement with North Korea that will be the genesis of a 'Joint Investigating Team.'