Koreans want answers to slave laborers' fates

Kang Joung Ho has been trying for 60 years to find out what happened to his father, who was brought to Japan as a forced laborer in 1943.</PARAGRAPH> <PHOTO> <TABLE WIDTH='250' ALIGN='RIGHT' BORDER='0'> <TR> <TD><IMG ALT='News photo' BORDER='0' SRC='../images/photos2006/nn20060729a3a.jpg' WIDTH='250' HEIGHT='143'/></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><FONT SIZE='1'><B>Chon Sing Yol –

and two other South Koreans seeking information on relatives who were slave laborers in Japan during the war take part in a ceremony Friday in Tokyo as others hold photos of three North Koreans who were denied visas. SATOKO KAWASAKI PHOTO

The only information he has found so far is that his father was forced to be a coxswain on a wooden ship that moved supplies for the Imperial Japanese Army in the South Pacific.