Of those, three thousand died in North Korean prison camps during the winter of 1950-1951. A few were court-martialed upon their return to the U.S. after the war. Lech researched 60,000 pages of primary source documents for the book. CNN Korea Series Chat, Raymond Lech. I am willing to accept any questions that the audience may have on prisoners of war in Korea.
Any reader can go to the Web site and read that chapter on the indoctrination program.
Although the war was over in 1953, the book continues for another two years with the court-martial in America of 14 soldiers who were POWs. The entire process was decentralized in the U.S. Army. What happened is that after the war, the prisoners were returned to the United States. Meanwhile, the policy in another jurisdiction may have been to court-martial everyone, or no one. Most prisoners admitted to collaborating.