SEOUL-In a novel by Choi In-hoon, a North Korean prisoner captured by the South Korean troops during the 1950-53 Korean War did not want to go to either of the two Koreas after the case-fire.

In the novel, "Kwangjang" (a plaza), Lee Myong-jun selected a third option - going to India. While Lee was heading there aboard a U.N.-arranged ship, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Indian Ocean in frustration over his mother country, which was torn by war and ideology.

It was a novel, but actually at that time, there was an Indian officer who went the opposite way, from India to Korea. He did not come to fight, but as a member of the United Nations Korea Commission.


India was not a member of the 16-nation U.N. Command that arrived here to battle for the South against invading North Korean troops.