Disclosure of Petition

Choi Sung-yong (left), the representative of the gathering of the kidnapped family to North Korea, and Cheon Ki-won, a missionary of Durihana Mission, disclosed photographs of Baeck Jong-gyu, a prisoner of war who was captured by North Korea in the Korean War back in 1953 and who died in a concentration camp, and a petition which Baeck’s daughter sent to president Roh Moo-hyun. Baeck’s daughter, who evacuated from North Korea, sincerely hopes to bury her father’s bones in South Korea, Baeck’s motherland.

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