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75 Years After He Was Kidnapped to North Korea, These Sisters Still Hope to See Their Brother

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By Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Min Young-jae has not seen or heard anything about her eldest brother for 75 years. He was 19 and she was only 2 when, during the early days of the Korean War, he was kidnapped to the North. “We were known in the neighborhood as a happy family,” the now 77-year-old told CNN, as her older sister Min Jeong-ja nodded in agreement. Their peaceful days were shattered on June 25, 1950, when North Korea inva…

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75 years after he was kidnapped to North Korea, these sisters still hope to see their brother

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