It's been 10-11 years since six South Koreans have been detained in North Korea, but there are still no words on whether they are still alive.
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FILE - American missionary Kenneth Bae, right, leaves after speaking to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang, North Korea, Jan. 20, 2014. FILE - A South Korean man watches a TV screen reporting about South Korean Kim Kuk Gi, left, and Choe Chun Gil, detained in North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, March 27, 2015. The letters read,"Detained Kim Kuk Gi, Choe Chun Gil."
Kim Jeong-sam speaks during an interview next to his brother Kim Jung Wook's photo at his office in Incheon, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. But as he marks 10 years since his father’s arrest this week, Choi doesn't know where his father is, or even if he's still alive.“I have some good memories of my dad. I’m his son so I must fight hard to get him returned,” Choi, a 34-year-old beer company official in South Korea, told The Associated Press. “I can only assume he’s been in an extremely bad situation.”
The three missionaries have been denied consular services and opportunities to communicate with their loved ones in South Korea. Gwon Hyojin, a defector who spent several years at a North Korean prison in the 2000s, said that five to six inmates died every day as a result of malnutrition, beatings by fellow inmates and accidents at work. Choi Min-kyung, who was imprisoned in North Korea before her 2012 defection, said that dozens of people shared a cell and that outbreaks of infectious diseases were also a major cause of deaths.
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