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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
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Re: POW Escapes North Korea After 45 Years
Date: September 30, 1998
South Korean Staff Sergeant Chang Moo-hwan, 72, remained a POW of the North Koreans for 45 years before making his way to freedom.
After laboring in a coal mine as slave labor, he escaped and made his way to China, then on to South Korea. He was carried by officials as Killed in Action and a headstone bears his name in Seoul National Cemetery.
The former POW states over 59 South Korean POWs were still alive in a concentration camp in North Korea by th time he left. South Korea states that 40,000 POWs were not repatriated at the end of the war. In the ensuing years, only 3 POWs have managed to escape from North Korea.
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