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Article: (ROUNDUP) Freed from North Korea, S. Korean worker returns home.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- August 14, 2009
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SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean worker returned home Thursday after more than four months of detention in North Korea, as Pyongyang presented a rare fence-mending gesture to raise hopes of refreshing inter-Korean relations. Yu Seong-jin, an employee of Hyundai Group's North Korea business unit, Hyundai Asan Corp., had been detained incommunicado since March on accusations of criticizing the North's political system. His release came as the chairwoman of the conglomerate, Hyun Jung-eun, was in Pyongyang for the fourth day. "I'm happy to be back safely," Yu told reporters and a welcoming crowd who packed the Inter-Korean Transit Office, a gateway from North Korea, ...