KBS <Current Affairs Planning Window> ‘The train was heading north’

2024-02-06 17:41:04

After the armistice in 1953, they were unable to return through a prisoner exchange and were mobilized to labor in North Korea's prisoner-of-war camps, forced labor camps, and coal mines for up to 50 years.

The late Kim Seong-tae, a South Korean POW who escaped North Korea after suffering hardships including being imprisoned for 13 years in a correctional center (prison) for trying to escape to South Korea, and Lee Dae-bong, who was taken to the Aoji Coal Mine and forced to work for 53 years, returned to their homeland after defecting from North Korea. When they returned, they were surprised by how prosperous Korea was, but they lived with a resentment that they could not tell anyone about why their country had forgotten them and did not come to get them.

The Current Affairs Planning Center reporters shed new light on the unfortunate lives of South Korean prisoners of war through the eyes of a female writer who personally met and reported on surviving South Korean prisoners of war, and also introduced the story of a South Korean man who was taken as a volunteer soldier of the North Korean People's Army through an internal North Korean video. do.

 

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