Minister of Extractive Industries Min Chol Kang of Korea, North

The official at Insein, where political prisoners are also held, said Kang was the longest serving foreigner prisoner and could speak the locallanguage.

Kang was treated for a serious liver ailment in March.

A former inmate told the magazine, “Kang said he did not want to go to the North because he would be treated as a traitor and he did not want to go to the South because he would be punished for the terror.

Kang said the two officers twice plunged Mr.

Gang Yi-sik, a military official of Goguryeo.