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 Jeon Wook-pyo, now 68, is thought to have crossed the border to China 
  
 He was one of 25 boat crewmen captured in 1972 
  
  
  
 A South Korean fisherman kidnapped by North Korea 41 years ago has managed to pull off a daring escape and has been reunited with his family in Seoul. 
  
  
  
 No details of how Jeon Wook-pyo, now 68, managed to escape from the secretive North but most who have made it across the border - either by land or across a river into China - risk being shot by guards. 
  
  
  
 It was in 1972 when Jeon was serving as one of 25 crewmen manning two South Korean boats that they were all captured by North Korean sailors in the Yellow Sea. 
  
  
  
 Free: Jeon Wook-pyo wrote to President Park Geun-hye earlier this month asking for her help, telling her he had escaped because he misses his family and friends 
  
 A spokesman for the Abductees' Family Union, based in Seoul, said Jeon managed to flee from the North early last month. 
  
  
  
 'He is the only crewman from those two boats to have escaped,' said the spokesman, Choi Sung-yung. 
  
 On his arrival in Seoul, Jeon was taken to a safe house by South Korean security officials and questioned about his life in the enemy North - what is expected to be the first of a series of debriefings. 
  
 A black and white photograph released earlier this month by Choi Sung-yong shows a 1974 photo of 36 South Korean fishermen grouped together on North Korea's Mount Myohyang, among them Jeon Wook-pyo, whose name was also spelt as Chun. 
  
 Thirty-six South Korean fishermen abducted by North Korea, including Jeon, pose together on Mount Myohyang in North Korea in 1974 
  
 Revealing his escape from the security of a 'safe country' - believed to be China - after he had crossed over the border, Jeon wrote to South Korea's President Park Geun-hye asking for help. 
  
 He told her he had risked his life to escape because he missed his family and friends in the South more and more and wished to spent his remaining years with them and be buried there. 
  
 It is believed that Seoul's security officials will want to firmly establish that Jeon has not been indoctrinated with the mind-set of the Stalinist North and will take every opportunity to spy on the South. 
  
  
  
 They would also want to ensure that the escaped man really was Jeon - and not an elderly North Korean intelligence agent using his identity. 
  
 People who have escaped from the North in the past have claimed that a large number of spies are operating in South Korea, some having been 'allowed' to escape in order to carry out their intelligence work. 
  
  
  
 Seoul officials estimate that at least 3,800 South Koreans have been kidnapped by North Korea since the Korean War of 1950-53. 
  
 The main purpose was to question them about the way of life in the South so that North Korean spies could easily infiltrate cities when on undercover missions. 
  
  
  
 Mr Kim Hyung-suk, spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed today that Jeon had safely returned to the South, but gave no other details about his escape. 
  
  ||||| A South Korean fisherman escaped from North Korea and made his way home 41 years after being abducted. 
  
 Jeon Wook Pyo, 67, was fishing for skate in the Yellow Sea when North Korea seized his boat in 1972, Choi Sung Yong, president of the Seoul-based Abductees’ Family Union, said today by phone. He was the only one of the 25 fisherman captured that day to be heard from again, Choi said. South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung Suk confirmed Jeon’s return at a briefing in Seoul without providing details. 
  
 Jeon underwent questioning by South Korean authorities -- a required step for most North Korean defectors -- after arriving in Seoul through a third country, Choi said. Jeon worked as a truck driver in the North before he escaped last month, Choi said. Choi didn’t provide any more details on Jeon’s escape. 
  
 “Jeon should be home with his family by now,” said Choi, who has been involved in other escapes by South Koreans for more than a decade. 
  
 Yonhap News reported that Jeon wrote a letter to President Park Geun Hye while he was in the third country and asked for help to get him home. 
  
 “I took a chance to escape the North because I had a growing wish to spend the rest of my life with my relatives and brothers at home,” the letter said, according to Yonhap. 
  
 Korean Abductees 
  
 South Korea believes more than 500 of its nationals are still being held in the North after a spate of abductions in the years following end of the Korean War in 1953. Most are fishermen. 
  
 During the war, more than 11,000 South Koreans were abducted by retreating North Korean forces, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry document from 1963. North Korea denies holding any abductees. 
  
 South and North Korea technically remain at war after the conflict ended in a truce and without a peace treaty. Relations between the two countries have improved in recent weeks, easing tensions that flared after the North conducted its third nuclear test in February. 
  
 To contact the reporter on this story: Sam Kim in Seoul at skim609@bloomberg.net 
  
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 HONG KONG — A South Korean fisherman who was kidnapped and taken to North Korea four decades ago has fled his captors and returned home, government officials confirmed Friday. 
  
 The man, Chun Wook-pyo, 68, was among 25 South Koreans who were taken to the North in December 1972 after their two fishing boats were captured in the Yellow Sea. 
  
 Kim Hyung-suk, a spokesman with South Korea’s Unification Ministry, confirmed to reporters in a briefing Friday that Mr. Chun had been returned safely to his homeland, but provided no details. 
  
 Such escapes are rare in North Korea, given the heavy security at prisons and other detainee camps. In addition, escapees must make often treacherous journeys to reach the border with China and then find their way to a welcoming third country with good ties to South Korea, like Thailand. North Korea’s border with the South is heavily militarized. 
  
 Thousands of fishermen are thought to have been captured by North Korea over the years. Most have been allowed to return, but more than 450 never did. North Korea has denied holding the fishermen against their will, but eight who previously made it back to the South since 2000 have said they were forced to stay in the North, where they lived under constant surveillance. 
  
 Choi Sung-yong, a longtime activist who has helped bring several South Korean fishermen and prisoners from the Korean War out of the North, reported Mr. Chun’s escape last month, but South Korea did not confirm it at the time. Mr. Choi said that Mr. Chun, who escaped from North Korea on Aug. 11, was the only member of his crew to make it out. Mr. Choi said Mr. Chun underwent two weeks of questioning by South Korean officials before being reunited with his family this month. |||||
Student:
In 1972, more than two dozen South Korean fisherman were kidnapped by the North while sailing the Yellow Sea. Forty-one years later, Chun Wook-pyo, 68, has made it back home, South Korea today confirmed. He's "the only crewman from those two boats to have escaped," says a rep for the Seoul-based Abductees' Family Union, per the Daily Mail. And he's one of thousands of fishermen believed to have been taken by the North across decades, though Pyongyang denies it. Some 450 have never returned home, reports the New York Times. The escape, first reported last month, is rare; the Times reports that eight fisherman are previously said to have made it back since 2000. And the ordeal doesn't necessarily end upon reaching home: According to the Mail, South Korean officials are typically suspicious of escapees like Chun, fearing they could have been indoctrinated by the North and set free as a spy. They may also be concerned that the person claiming to be Chun could in fact be a North Korean agent. Chun was reportedly questioned for two weeks upon his arrival in the South before rejoining his family. While very few additional details were given, the rep tells Bloomberg that Chun worked as a truck driver in North Korea. (In other North Korea news, white steam has been spotted at a reactor there; what that means here.)