1st Reconnaissance Squadron and Larry Allen Abshier
Six American Soldiers Defected to North Korea
Private First Class Larry Allen Abshier
Private First Class Larry Allen Abshier made the decision of incomprehensible permanence on May 28, 1962. Just 19 years old, he took off.
Larry Allen Abshier (1943 - July 11, 1983) was one of six American soldiers who defected to North Korea after the Korean War. He was born in Urbana, Illinois.
The first person to defect to North Korea was Pvt. James Joseph Dresnok in the early 1960s. Larry Allen Abshier, Jerry Wayne Parrish, and Allen Abshier all defected and remained in North Korea.
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