South Korean Held In North Is Freed, Returns Home (ap)

Yoo Seong-jin, an employee for Hyundai Group's North Korean business arm Hyundai Asan, speaks to the media after crossing the border at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, near the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. North Korea on Thursday freed South Korean worker Yoo detained for months in the communist country, brightening prospects for improved relations on the tense peninsula. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP – North Korea freed a South Korean worker Thursday it had detained for months for allegedly denouncing its political system ? an apparent goodwill gesture toward Seoul and Washington amid the standoff over the regime’s nuclear weapons program.

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