What an amazing story, hope he is able to reunite with his family.
Via Daily Mail:
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.
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.