Former N. Korean Spies Back Home From South
Associated Press
PANMUNJOM, Korea —
Waving and singing, 63 elderly North Korean ex-spies and rebels returned to their Communist homeland today after decades of confinement in South Korean prisons.
The North Koreans, ages 66 to 90, left a hotel in the South Korean capital, Seoul, for a one-hour bus ride to the border village of Panmunjom for their repatriation.
There, they walked across the border after South Korean Red Cross officials handed over the former agents’ medical records to their North Korean counterparts.
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