Prisoner of Pyongyang?

When U.S. army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins was allowed to leave North Korea in 2004 after nearly 40 years, North Korean officials rifled through his personal belongings, Jenkins says, and confiscated family photographs that included anyone other than himself, his wife and their two daughters. Or so they thought. In their haste, the North Korean censors missed a 1984 photo taken in Wonsan on the country's east coast. At first glance, it is an innocuous family snap of Jenkins with his wife Hitomi Soga and their first daughter Mika during a rare trip to the beach. But at the left of...

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