American soldier who defected to North Korea has died in Pyongyang

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[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/21/a-u-s-soldier-who-defected-to-north-korea-in-1962-has-died-his-pyongyang-born-sons-say/?utm_term=.670d0492e507|

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1. I had no idea that this man had American sons still living there! Crazy.

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2. What a coincidence

Read this article yesterday from a DU link about a different guy in North Korea. Thought the name Dresnok sounded familiar. He is mentioned in the story!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/meet-charles-robert-jenkins-an-american-detained-by-north-korea-for-40-years/ar-AAq8ffg?li=BBnb7Kz

"For eight years, the North Korean government held him in a spartan room with three other American defectors — Jerry Wayne Parrish, 19; Larry Abshier, 19; and James Dresnok, 21. Authorities forced them to memorize ideological tomes by Kim Il Sung, the country's founder-president, and beat them when they slipped up. Bit by bit, they learned to speak Korean. Their relationships began to fray — Jenkins and Dresnok didn't get along at all — and when their North Korean minders weren't beating them, they often got in fistfights themselves."

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3. Great article, thanks for the post. Just unbelievable stories...