POW/MIA: ABSENCE OF U.S. POWS IN NORTH KOREA

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• Document Creation Date: July 11, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2016-00538
• Publication Date: November 4, 1988

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IS1156414F-4-SUBJ: POW/MIA: ABSENCE OF U.S. POWS IN NORTH KOREA
Central Intelligence Agency
04 November 1988
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CONTEXT A
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--(SheeirlF) 2 -IAD NOT HEARD OF R AMERICAN KOREAN WARERA (b)(1)
PRISONERS-OF-WAR (POWS) IN NORTH KOREA NOT BELIEVE THERE WERE ANY LIVING U.S. (2),c3
POWS IN NORTH KOREA. EVEN IF THERE HAD BEEN U.S. PRISONERS AT THE END (b)(1)
OF THE KOREAN WAR, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL OR DIFFERENT TREATMEN1(b)(3)
THAN OTHER PRISONERS. THEY WOULD NOT HAVE HAD SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS SUCH AS "POW,"
FOR EXAMPLE, AND IF THEY DIED, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN BURIED AS ANY OTHER PRISONER WAS
BURIED. THIS TYPE OF TREATMENT WOULD BE NORMAL NORTH KOREAN CULTURAL PRACTICE FOR
SOMEONE CONSIDERED TO BE AT THE SOCIAL LEVEL OF A PRISONER.
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