US Edition95-year-old former North Korean soldier in South campaigns to be sent to the North
Ahn Hak-sop, imprisoned over 42 years in South Korea for his political beliefs, seeks to return to North Korea for burial but was denied crossing at the DMZ by authorities.
- 95-Year-Old Ahn Hak-sop, a former North Korean soldier captured during the Korean War, wants to return to North Korea to be buried alongside his comrades.
- Ahn spent over four decades in prison in South Korea for refusing to renounce his support for North Korea.
- Despite being denied entry into North Korea via the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone , Ahn remains unwavering in his desire to be buried in 'the free land.
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95-year-old former North Korean soldier in South campaigns to be sent to the North
A 95-year-old former North Korean soldier who spent decades imprisoned in the South will continue his campaign to return to the North, an activist said Thursday, after South Korean troops stopped his symbolic border march this week.
An unrepentant 95-year-old North Korean POW wants to walk back across the DMZ
Ahn Hak-seop was part of a seven-man North Korean squad sent to infiltrate enemy lines. It was 1953, and the Korean War was locked in a bloody stalemate. Ahn’s mission was to lead his heavily armed party to deliver coordinates from Pyongyang across an icy mountain range in the middle of winter to a meeting of the communist party in the Kangwon-do district. Over the course of nine months, six of them would die trying. Ahn was captured by South Ko…
Korea: An elderly former prisoner of war wants to die in North Korea. But on Wednesday, he was unable to cross the border. South Korean…
Even after decades, he is not allowed to leave South Korea and return to the communist North.
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