UN AND ROK PRISONERS OF WAR IN NORTH KOREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
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• Publication Date: March 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT UN and ROK Prisoners of War in North Korea
DATE DISTR. 20 March 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1
REPORT NO.
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1. Approximately 2,700 ROK prisoners of war were at.Pyoktong (125-26, 40-38)
(YF-0600) camp close to the Yalu River and 1,200 meters north of the Pyoktong
peoples' c6znmittee office ,1
Approximately 1,800 United Nations prisoners including 500 white prisoners were
at a camp on the Yalu River 3 kilometers northwest of Chasdng (126-39, 41-28)
(0,.:0493) peoples' committee office. Prisoner resistance to 200 guards from the
Ministry of Internal Affairs were punished by lack of food for 1 day and 10
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reactionary
hours hard labor digging shelters. Negro prisoners, called
dollars" by guards, were beaten for continually resisting guards; white prisoners,
called "okay dollars", were generally obedient.
There were approximately 2,500 ROK prisoners in a camp at the base of a mountain
at K& ha-dong (126-21, 41.08) (BA-7856) 2 kilometers east of the Manp'oJin
(126-17, 41-09) (BA-7259) rail station.?-
4. Approximately 3,000 ROK prisoners were in a camp at the base of a mountain at
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northeast of Ch'angsong (125-03, 40-30) (XE-7485) peoples
The camp area was 800 meters square.
There were approximately 2,000 prisoners in a camp at the base of a mountain 3
kilometers west Ungdong (126-05, 39-09) (BTT-4837). The camp area was smaller
than others. The prisoners here slightly swayed toward. Communism. The United
Nations air raid on the camp at 9.p.m., 14 January 1952 wounded 64risoners
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and was followed by a voluntary statement by all the camp prisoners to EIM
11-song, protesting United States imperialism, treatment of prisoners at this
camp vas greatly improved since this statement.3
The usual daily ration at all camps is 3 hops of rice; corn, or mixed cereals.
The-prisoners are given 2 hours of lectures daily on Communist Party history and
Leninism. They are required to perform 10 hours of hard labor daily, usually
cutting and transporting timber for construction of shelters; for every 10
prisoners there is 1 guard which the Ministry of Internal Affairs provides,
The camps are generally about 500 meters square enclosed with barbed-wire
entanglements,
1. Comment. In last November, 8,000 United Nations prisoners were housed
in large barracks at Pyokton;&, 25X1A
2.. Comment. Last August, 206 United Nations prisoners) mostlyAmericans,
werebilleted to poraxi],y at. the Mangy'gj in Girls ch of and were removed in
mid-September to a -,gia .mike' statjbn 35 miles'est af,1 p`ojin,
Co=eat. In September 1951, there were about 1,000 isoners at a
kilometers vest of Kan,gdong, 25X1A
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