Destination Pyongyang: 50-year search for father after N. Korean hijack

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NSTworld: The incident sparked international outcry, prompting a UN resolution denouncing the hijacking, and two months later 39 of those on board were repatriated, but Hwang’s father was not among them.

Hwang was just two when he last saw his father and knows him only through photographs, but he has spent much of his adult life campaigning for him.

Returning passengers said Hwang Won had been dragged away after resisting efforts to indoctrinate them and questioning the North’s ideology. Later in life, his father’s detention in Kim Il Sung’s Communist North was “a major handicap“, the mere fact he was in Pyongyang making the son stumble on background checks for decent jobs.

“Since the crew members and passengers have not arrived at their final destination, the plane is still in flight according to the treaty,” he said. South Korean President Moon Jae-in met three times with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un last year, but Hwang remained a bitter onlooker.

 

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