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Today (27th) is the 67th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement. There are still some who cannot escape from the scars of division and the Cold War, fishermen who were kidnapped in North Korea after the war.

Reporter Park Jae-hyun met the abducted fisherman and his family, who had long suffered after spying.

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1969, an early-fishing fishing boat was kidnapped in North Korea carrying 15 fishermen, including Choi Soon-bok, from the sea near Baengnyeong-do.

The party was taken to Pyongyang.

[Choi Soon-Bok/Nabbuk Fisherman: 50 people were caught first. I went to class 1, class 2 and class 3. (North Korea) I watch the development every day.]

I tried to use it in the propaganda of South Korea by keeping it in the North.

Seonju and Choi claimed to return to South Korea and returned with their fishing boat after four months.

But what waited was not the hospitality, but the investigation of the police and the prosecution.

[Choi Soon-Bok/Nabbuk Fisherman: (If you eat champon) Put your legs on the chair upside down and pour the gnome (champon) upside down (nose). (I was trapped in the police station) I was beaten for more than two weeks.]

Two fishing boats were also stolen by the state.

Returned fishermen were sentenced to two years and six months in prison for violating anti-communism laws, and released for one year after detention.

When I finished my brother, this time my spy scam went through my family.

[Choi Eun-Soo/Abductee Son-ju Son: I got a job, but after 14 days (identity inquiry), I don't have to take away the documents.
I can't measure it. I haven't been able to work for a day since then... .]

After claiming retrial, he was acquitted in 2017 and was reimbursed for the poor prisoner, but the fishing boats that were stolen by the state were not returned.

Although they filed a lawsuit against the country, both the first and second trials were lost because they did not file a lawsuit in 1970.

The Abductee Victim Compensation Act was not recognized as a victim of abduction because the North Koreans were considered victims only if they had been in the North for more than three years.

Of the more than 3,000 return abducted fishermen, only 9 cases or 0.2% were recognized as victims.

He was branded as a spy for decades because he was abducted.

67 years have passed since the war ended, but their suffering is still ongoing.

(Video coverage: Hyun-Cheol Yang, Yong-Woo Kim, Video editing: Jin-Hun Park)