However, several POW's escaped and came home via China for last decade.
Ping!
They still have American POWs no doubt, a few, in their 70s and 80s, although probably most died, or freaked out and were put down. When Kim is toppled, the truth will in fact come out. I hope some of them could be returned to their hometowns, some 55 or so years later.
Government data show that about 19,000 South Korean soldiers went missing in action during the 1950-53 Korean War. The government estimates about 560 POWs are still alive in the North.<<<
My heart breaks for all the relations of the 19,000, who do not know if their loved one is still alive, or dead.
I am sure many of them think their loved one is one of the 560.
15 years after WW2, I was in my Aunt’s car, she was driving down 5th Avenue, in the heart of San Diego.
Suddenly she slammed on the brakes, jumped out and ran over to the sidewalk, and stared at a man.
Then came back and joined us.
Later I asked her about it.
My Uncle Bill Brown was ‘lost on the beach at Normandy’, during invasion in WW2.
They never sent his body home, so she was for the next 50 years, looking for him, sure he had been wounded in the head and lost his memory, so one day she would find him again.
Life goes one for the survivor, but never will it be the same again.