north korea

One of the misconceptions about the North Korean prisoner camps, where the extraordinary amount of brainwashing happening in them. The communists gave the American prisoners of war some reeducating. Brainwashing proved in the long run to be unproductive, but it did keep 21 Americans in camp. The American armed forces tried to find out what really happened with their own psychologists, but the information taken was inconclusive. Some of the POW’s in the North Korean …

…harassment by the Communists." One of the writers of the American POW behavior, Stanley Elkins wrote a similar story to the five soldiers. He was quoted in his writings by saying "profound changes in behavior and values" being "effected without physical torture or extreme deprivation". The conditions brought upon the American POW’s where extremely brutal, which gave the American soldiers less energy and/or motivation to except from the prison camps. Bibliography no biblio