[KS] North Koreans in Brazil?

[Kent Allen Davy]

Thank you

Kent

"The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding."

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> On Jul 30, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Yoo Kwang-On <almakoreana at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Answers to Ken Davy's following questions;
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> "When did repatriation (sic) to a neutral nation get on the table in the negotiations at Panmunjom and which other neutral countries volunteered?"
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> Well, it was United Nations negotiators who brought the matter to the table early on. Chronologically, the negotiations went as follows:
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> ("World War ll added a new chapter to the handling of prisoners of war when the Soviet Union retained large numbers of German and Japanese prisoners for a long period after the war to assist in the rehabilitation of the USSR. Perhaps to prevent a recurrence of this action, the delegates to the Geneva Conference in 1949 strengthened the article dealing with repatriation. It became a flat statement prescribing quick and compulsory repatriation. But in their zeal to protect the right of each prisoner to return home swiftly, the delegates ignored the other side of the coin. They failed to incorporate escape provisions who might be afraid to go back, those who had fallen out of sympathy with their national regimes, and those who preferred the ways of their captors, The omission was soon revealed by the Korean War." ) (pages 135-136)
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> From the start, the U.N's position was "voluntary repatriation", in part due to the insistence of President Eisenhower, who was deeply disappointed by the way the Soviets handled German Prisoners of War after the WW ll. 
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> Conversely, the Communists insisted on an "all-for-all" compulsory repatriation.(page 141)
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> On September 28, 1952, the U.N. proposed that "...All non repatriates would be delivered to the demilitarized zone in small groups, released from military control, and then interviewed by representatives of countries not participating in the Korean hostilities."
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> North Korea rejected this proposal outright demanding full repatriation. (page 281)
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> On October 8, 1952, United Nations Command declared a recess until the Communists were willing to accept one of their plans or submit, in writing, a constructive proposal of their own. (page 281)
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> On March 30, 1953, to break the stalemate,  "Chou En-lai, Foreign Minister of Communist China - - -went on to the POW problem and offered what apparently was the key concession, ...and to hand over the remaining prisoners of war to a neutral state so as to ensure a just solution to the question of their repatriation." (page 413)
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> On April 26, 1953, after a long recess since the previous October, negotiations resumed. The North Korean delegation proposed "...(2) all nonrepatriates would be sent to a neutral state and turned over to its jurisdiction. (3) Then, for a period of six months, the nation to which the nonrepatriates belonged should have the opportunity and facilities to talk to and persuade them to come back...(6) All expenses of the nonrepartriates in the neutral state would be borne by the nation to which the prisoners belonged. " (pages 423)
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> And that was that. 
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> I do not have an answer in regards to which other counties offered asylum for the Non-Repatriates.
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> The pages indicated above are from:
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> United States Army In The Korean War
> Truce Tent and Fighting Front by Walter G, Hermes
> Office of the Chief of Military History
> United States Army
> Washington, D.C., 1966
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> Yoo Kwang-On
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> 
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>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Kent Davy <kentdavy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When did repatriation (sic) to a neutral nation get on the table in the negotiations at Panmunjom and which other neutral countries volunteered?
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>> ____________________________________________________________
>> "The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding."
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>>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:44 PM, カプリオマーク Ｅ． <caprio at rikkyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> This has been an interesting discussion on Korean POWs being sent to neutral countries after the Korean War. I believe that the movie JSA (Joint Security Area) built on this by making the female major assigned to investigate the incident at the DMZ a product of one North Korean who was sent to somewhere in South America where he met a Swiss (I believe) lady who brought him back to Switzerland. The movie offers some statistics on the number of Koreans who accepted this option, though they would have to be verified.
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>>> Mark Caprio
>>> Rikkyo University
>>> 
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>>> 2014-07-23 19:09 GMT-04:00 John Eperjesi <john.eperjesi at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>>> In Korean American writer Paul Yoon's new Korean War novel "Snow Hunters," a North Korean soldier spends two years in  POW camp "near the southern coast" of South Korea, "near an airbase."
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>>>> After the war, rather than be repatriated, he is given the chance to move to Brazil, which he does.
>>>> 
>>>> Can anyone help with materials than can develop the historical context for the POW camp and/or North Korean migration to Brazil after the war?
>>>> 
>>>> Much thanks in advance,
>>>> John
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