[KS] US North Korea GI Defector
Dr.Fendler Karoly
kfendler at axelero.hu
Mon Jul 12 22:51:32 EDT 2004
Dear Miss Tracy, Ch.Jensen defected to North Korea in January 1965 and not during the Korean War.I met him then at his press-
conference,organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,in Pyongyang as pressattache of the Hungarian Embassy.You can find his story
everywhere now.
Best,
Fendler, Karoly
Budapest
kfendler at axelero.hu
----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy
To: Korean Studies Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:37 AM
Subject: [KS] US North Korea GI Defector
Dear Korea Studies List,
A few days ago Reuters reported a man being reunited with his wife in Indonesia. He was a GI who is thought to have defected to North Korea during the Korean War. Has anyone heard of this man? Is anything else known about him and his family?
see website: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5614720§ion=news
Thank you.
Tracy Stober
University of Washington
Afostercarter at aol.com wrote:
Has anyone done any work on North Korean aid
to Africa, or know anyone who has?
In the 1970s and 1980s the DPRK had embassies
all over the continent. Aid projects in a range of
countries - Guinea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and many more -
ranged from the practical and useful (agriculture, construction)
to the more dubious (military training, organizing mass games,
building statues). It must have cost Pyongyang a fortune. Most of
the embassies have shut, but a little of this may still continue.
We think now of North Korea as an aid recipient.
It used to be a donor also. This chapter in the heyday of
tricontinental solidarity is now history, but should not go
unrecorded. It would make a fascinat! ing PhD topic,
either in general or for particular countries.
One model could be Philip Snow's The Star Raft,
which looks at China's encounter with Africa.
AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University
17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK
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