A court in Seoul ruled on Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un must pay a total of 105 million won (€60,177) in damages to five former Korean War prisoners, the third such ruling against Pyongyang.
The Seoul Central District Court said it had ordered Kim to pay 21 million won (€12,024) to each of the five plaintiffs, all former South Korean soldiers who were captured during the 1950-53 war and forcibly held in the North for decades.
The plaintiffs include Koh Kwang-myun and four other survivors, among only six former South Korean prisoners of war still alive and residing in the South.
The men, all now in their 90s, were captured by Chinese communist forces during a reconnaissance mission and taken to what is now North Korea.
They were not repatriated despite the armistice agreement in July 1953.
