http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/ Korea... in Blog Format Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77769 OneFreeKorea » Anju Links for 15 April 2007 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:17:27 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77769 [...] brings me to this post by The Marmot, telling the sad story of yet another North Korean violation of the 1953 Armistice.  We now [...] [...] brings me to this post by The Marmot, telling the sad story of yet another North Korean violation of the 1953 Armistice.  We now [...]

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77581 globalvillageidiot Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:17:06 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77581 Weren't the Soviets suspected of also keeping some Allied troops - prisoners they "liberated" from the Germans plus other guys caught behind their lines - after WWII? I seem to recall reading about an American being "discovered" living in the Ukraine in the early 1990s. He'd been there since 1945! Anyway, the notion of South Korean troops finding themselves in the USSR doesn't shock me, but I don't know if 12 000 would be an accurate number. Weren’t the Soviets suspected of also keeping some Allied troops - prisoners they “liberated” from the Germans plus other guys caught behind their lines - after WWII? I seem to recall reading about an American being “discovered” living in the Ukraine in the early 1990s. He’d been there since 1945! Anyway, the notion of South Korean troops finding themselves in the USSR doesn’t shock me, but I don’t know if 12 000 would be an accurate number.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77575 sewing Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:47:35 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77575 Wow. Just wow. To both bits of news: the ROK POWs and this Mr. Park character. Wow. Wow. Just wow. To both bits of news: the ROK POWs and this Mr. Park character. Wow.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77572 Antti Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:25:36 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/13/thousands-of-korean-pows-brought-to-ussr-report/#comment-77572 It seems a bit odd that thousands of POWs would have altogether disappeared in Soviet Union. The Gulag system was being dismantled after the Korean War ended, and even the last German (and Finnish) POWs who were alived were allowed to return home at around '56. Conditions in the Soviet camps were sure horrible, but I don't think its likely that none would have survived until the demise of Soviet Union. It seems a bit odd that thousands of POWs would have altogether disappeared in Soviet Union. The Gulag system was being dismantled after the Korean War ended, and even the last German (and Finnish) POWs who were alived were allowed to return home at around ‘56. Conditions in the Soviet camps were sure horrible, but I don’t think its likely that none would have survived until the demise of Soviet Union.

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