
Summit Offers Little Hope for Hwang Won, Held Captive for 49 Years
When Hwang Won boarded a plane for a short domestic flight in South Korea in 1969, it was the journey that never ended. The airliner was hijacked to North Korea …
Read MoreA Call for Justice
When Hwang Won boarded a plane for a short domestic flight in South Korea in 1969, it was the journey that never ended. The airliner was hijacked to North Korea …
Read MoreThank you to Bruce Harrison for this piece which appears on the sites of NBC News and America Online. At each previous inter-Korean summit, Hwang said, attempts have been made …
Read MoreThank you to veteran journalist and author Donald Kirk for this timely piece and for the link to this site: Yes, three American hostages arrived back in the United States …
Read MoreThank you to Associated Press’s Kim Tong-Hyung for his piece concerning last Tuesday’s press conference. North Korea’s release of three American detainees offers some hope for the relatives of hundreds of …
Read MoreHowever you see the upcoming meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, for tens of thousands of Koreans on both sides of the border it …
Read MoreThank you to Al Jazeera’s Wooyoung Lee for this piece regarding the upcoming summit. The agenda for the third inter-Korean summit scheduled for April 27 is unlikely to have North …
Read MoreYonhap News Agency reported that human rights are not on the agenda for the upcoming summit between the leaders of the two Koreas. “The most urgent issue is the denuclearization …
Read MoreToday, the 1969 KAL Abductees’ Families Association joined 39 other organizations in sending a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, urging him to press for the inclusion of human …
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