The Korean War
Current Events & Pop Culture
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Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture
Korean War Vet Detained...60 Years After the War's End
An American veteran of the Korean war, who was visiting North Korea as a tourist, was detained by two uniformed men after boarding a plane bound for the next stop on his vacation: Beijing, China.
Excerpt
"Merrill Newman had been visiting the country as a tourist and was buckled into his seat on a plane bound for Beijing on Oct. 26 when two uniformed men boarded the plane and escorted him off the flight.
According to Newman’s son, authorities took his father into custody a day after he had spoken with North Korean officials about his time spent serving in the infantry during the war on the Korean Peninsula in the early 1950s."