N. Korea holding 516 S. Korean detainees: report
2013/10/14 13:57
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is estimated to be detaining 516 South Koreans who have been taken by the communist country after the Armistice Agreement halting the Korean War was signed in July 1953, a government report showed Monday.
The findings submitted by the Ministry of Unification to Rep. Choung Byoung-gug ahead of the parliamentary audit, showed Pyongyang having held a total of 3,835 people in the past six decades, with 3,319 having been returned home or escaped.