Home, After Thirty Years

After thirty years of forced labor in a chicken farm with no chickens, Ko Myung-Sup is home at last.

“Happiness was short-lived. Thinking about my beloved wife and kids I left behind in the North, I am only sad with more despair,” said the 62-year-old Ko, speaking in a heavy North Korean accent at a seminar Friday hosted by the main opposition Grand National Party.

A key party goal is to push this year for bills aimed at accounting for South Korean detainees in the communist North and improving the welfare of their families in the South, said Rep. Kim Moon-soo, who organized the meeting.

Kim Moon-Soo ought to be beatified.