In early 1996, an analyst at the Department of Defense claimed there were 15 Americans being held captive in Korea. Then DoD did a flip-flop on that statement. We do know that a South Korean escaped from a North Korea POW camp a year or so ago, after 43 years in captivity.
Here are a few documents that you may find very interesting, prepared in March of 1996 by the Department of Defense PoW/MIA Office (DPMO), regarding PoW's and Korea:
The bottom of the above page, the handwritten note was cut off by the fax machine.
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