Is Pyongyang holding U.S. POWs?According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the August 22nd Washington Times, a North Korean defector told the Defense Intelligence Agency Noun 1. Defense Intelligence Agency - an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition DIA (DIA) that he had seen four U.S. prisoners of war prisoners of war, in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. in Pyongyang in August or September 1993. "The POWs were described as being in their 50s or 60s and were under the control of the North Korean military's reconnaissance bureau," reported the Times. "They were in the North Korean capital to give a lecture on American 'armed power.'" The defector estimated that the North Korean regime may be holding as many as 60 American POWs. A DIA report declassified de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas at the request of the Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIAs concludes that as of 1990 "at least 10 U.S. prisoners, including 'an unknown number of black men,' were being held by North Korea in the Sungho district of Pyongyang," continued the Times. Additionally, two Americans were seen in the North Korean capital in 1986 teaching "western customs, western lifestyle and English" at a Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. school. |
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