Talk:Korean War POWs detained in North Korea

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Is there a way to use other citation and reference formats (e.g., APA or ALA) in Wikipedia? References and citations seem harder than they have to be.

Hanhwe.kim (talk) 05:22, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Reworded Origin section. The next step is to improve the reference and citations to further clarify the source of each statement.

Hanhwe.kim (talk) 10:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

To do:


 * Discuss North Korean practice of enlisting POWs into their forces from their POV.


 * Start a proper NPOV section on this "talk" page

Hanhwe.kim (talk) 16:45, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Need Help finding reference. Ref 22 points to a page that is available via paid service on highbeam.com. Please correct it to a free source if one is known. I have tried to search for a free reference on the 11 times South Korea demanded repatriation of POWs from 1953 to 1964 but have not been successful.

Thanks! Hanhwe.kim (talk) 11:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

This will be my last edit to this page for a while. I am starting Law School tommorrow so I will not have much time .. I am probably understating big time!

There are a few things that would greatly be appreciated:

James Brooke's New York Times article writes that one of the "practical" motivations for North Korea's policy towards its South Korean POWs was because they were seriously short of manpower. Unfortunately, Brooke only cites "historians and escaped POWs". I have heard also this from Dr. Thomas Y Chung who heads the Korean War POW Affairs Committee (koreanpow.com) I haven't been able to find any academic articles written by a historian about this. It would be nice to include this.

It would also be nice to include some of the content in the NPOV discussion that the POWs who have escaped have mentioned they heard from their North Korean commanders. It is impossible to get any North Korean academic sources but official sources that go beyond merely claiming "we do not have any POWs" would be great.

It would make me really really happy if we could get reviewed and the essay-like and NPOV tags removed. I would probably cry if we made C class.

If you feel strongly about this issue please do pitch in! Thanks!

Hanhwe.kim (talk) 06:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Changed the NPOV dispute to POV check since the only POV discussions were ones I have written. North Korean and Chinese official views on POW issues are hard to find. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hanhwe.kim (talk • contribs) 14:55, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

NPOV discussion
This section is for the NPOV issue regarding the Korean War POWs article. Please comment on ways to improve the neutrality of this article and resolve the NPOV dispute.

Here are my thoughts on improving the neutrality of this article:
 * Add North Korean and Chinese POV on POW issues
 * Some of the escaped POWs that the NKDB.org interviewed mentioned that they had asked to be sent home once they belatedly found out that a ceasefire and POW exchange were underway in 1953. North Korean officers who commanded their construction unit told them something like "we have fed and clothed you and taken care of your wounds all this time. We thought you had joined us. Now you want to betray us and leave!"

From that statement, it seems there could have been many North Korean officers who sincerely believed that the South Korean POWs had joined them. Perhaps some of that should be added as content.

Hanhwe.kim (talk) 22:21, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps they could add the content themselves, if their government allowed free expression, or access to the internet. [User:Bolton76|Bolton76]] (talk) 02:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

It would be useful to clarify the language--there are whole sections that use phrases like "communist POWs" where most readers can't tell whether those are prisoners OF the communists or whether the prisoners ARE communists. Very confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.45.3.49 (talk) 16:08, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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