US vet held in N. Korea says statement was coerced
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 85-year-old U. S. Korean War veteran who was detained for weeks by North Korea said Monday that the videotaped confession in which he apologized for killing North Koreans during the war was given involuntarily and under duress. In a written statement issued Monday, Merrill Newman said he tried to show that the words he read on the recording were not his own by emphasizing the apology's awkward phrasing and poor English grammar. "Anyone who has read the text of it...
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