Woo Yeong-Gil D0000165
North Korean victims- Case number
- FP050
- Name (KOR)
- 우영길
- Type of victim
- Disappeared in North Korea
- Nationality
- North Korea
- Sex
- Male
- Age group when taken
- 20s
- Below 18 when taken
- No
- Occupation
- Border guard
- Type of occupation
- Armed Forces
- Date of birth
- Mar 17, 1968
- Year of birth
- 1960s: 1968
- Place of birth
- Hyehwa-dong, Hyesan-si, Ryanggang
- Country of birth
- North Korea
- Place of residence
- Hyehwa-dong, Hyesan-si, Ryanggang
- Place of residence on map
Latitude: 41.390959
Longitude: 128.165648
- Place of residence on map
- Reason behind disappearance
- Illegal private commerce
- Date when taken
- Nov 19, 1990
- Year when taken
- 1990s: 1990
- Country where taken
- North Korea
- Province where taken
- Ryanggang
- Region where taken
- Kimhyeongjik-gun
- Region where taken on map
Latitude: 41.5058448
Longitude: 127.2574068
- Region where taken on map
- Type of place where taken
- Border
- Description of disappearance
- Arrested by a military MSS agent in charge and a MSS agent when he was meeting his Chinese counterpart to trade ginseng
- Year last identified
- 2000s: 2000
- Place last identified
- No. 25 kwanliso in Cheongjin-si, North Hamgyong
- Country last identified
- North Korea
- Information on detention
- Yes
- Place of first detention
- Military MSS in North Korea
- Additional information on first detention
- His friend gave his family a notice of his detention. In the Summer of 1991, a province-level MSS agent delivered the victim's letter to the family. The victim's sister filed a petition, and a person from the petition department told her that he would be released ten years later. -> However, a province-level MSS agent told his family that he had been sentenced to serve 20 years in a Political Prison Camp.
- Place of second detention
- No. 25 kwanliso in Cheongjin-si, North Hamgyong, North Korea
- Additional information on second detention
- His acquaintance in MSS saw him in 2000. In July 2019, after hearing about his release, his friend visited the Political Prison Camp but could not find him.
- Region of second detention on map
Latitude: 41.834384
Longitude: 129.72528
- Region of second detention on map
- Sentence
- 20 years
- Related perpetrator(s)
- Related proceeding(s)
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