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This list names the 22 United Nations soldiers and prisoners of war (one Briton and 21 Americans) who declined repatriation to the United Kingdom and United States after the Korean War in favour of remaining in China, and their subsequent fates. Also listed are soldiers who defected to North Korea.
In October 1994, Lt. Cho Chang-ho successfully escaped to South Korea. He was the first South Korean POW to have made it out of North Korea since the Korean War ended. Thereafter, during the past decade, as of June 2009, 79 prisoners of war (and about 180 of their family members) have escaped from the North. [35]
This is a list of foreign nationals who have been detained in North Korea. Excluded from the list are any persons who were detained while on active military duty and held as prisoners of war or military defectors. Also excluded are people abducted in other countries and brought into North Korea.
Geoje POW camp diorama. Geoje-do POW camp (Korean: 거제도 포로수용소/巨濟島 捕虜收容所, Chinese: 巨济岛战俘营) was a prisoner of war camp located on Geoje island at the southernmost part of Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. [1] It is considered the largest of the UNC established camps. [2]
Anti-communist North Korean ex-POW in Seoul. On 18 June, with the active planning and coordination of the South Korean government approximately 25,000 militantly anti-communist KPA prisoners of war broke out of the UNC prisoner of war camps at Pusan, Masan, Nonsan, and Sang Mu Dai. ROK security units assigned as guards at the POW camps did ...
The POW exchange proceeded without access to South Korean POWs who were not on the PVA/KPA rosters. [29] North Korea continued to claim that any South Korean POW who stayed in the North did so voluntarily. However, since 1994, South Korean POWs have been escaping North Korea on their own after decades of captivity.
A Ritchie County man was laid to rest over the weekend more than 73 years after he gave his life in the Korean War. ... 1951, at POW Camp 5 near Pyoktong, North Korea at the age of 23. U.S. Army ...
Pages in category "Korean War prisoners of war" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Korean War POWs detained in North Korea; M.