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Roy Chung (born Chung Ryeu Sup) is widely believed to be the fifth of six United States Army servicemen to have defected to North Korea after the Korean War. == Life and disappearance == Chung was not a natural-born American citizen; he and his family were South Korean immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1973. According to his father Soo-Oh Chung, he had joined the Army to get Army education benefits. He disappeared and was reported AWOL on June 5, 1979 while serving with his unit near Bayreuth, West Germany (about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the borders of Czechoslovakia and East Germany). After 30 days he became classified as a deserter. He was 22 and a Private First Class at the time.〔("South Korean, Who Joined U.S. Army, Reportedly Defected to North Korea" ), ''The Washington Post''. September 13, 1979. Joe Ritchie and Jaehoon Ahn. . A28.〕 Two months after his disappearance in Europe, North Korea's international broadcasting service ''Radio Pyongyang'' (now ''Voice of Korea'') announced his defection, stating that he "could no longer endure the disgraceful life of national insult and maltreatment he had to lead in the U.S. imperialist aggressor Army."〔 The other five men who disappeared into North Korea did so by directly crossing the Korean Demilitarized Zone. In 2004, filmmaker Nicholas Bonner (co-creator of the documentary ''Crossing the Line'') reported that he heard Chung had died of natural causes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Chung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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