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Article: (2nd LD) 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. 13 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean Hyundai worker returned home after North Korea freed him from months of detention on Thursday in a reconciliatory gesture made during a trip by the chairwoman of the conglomerate to the country. Yu Seong-jin has been detained incommunicado since late March on accusations of criticizing the North's political system. His health condition was not immediately known. The technician with Hyundai Asan Corp., the Hyundai Group's North Korea business arm, crossed the military demarcation line at around 8:30 p.m., South Korea's Unification Ministry said. He will be reunited later with his relatives at the Inter-Korean Transit Office, a ...