Cardinal Francis Hong Yong-ho

[Balcerhouse]

I was looking to see who the oldest Cardinal is. It turns out it’s Most Reverend Francis Hong Yong-ho. Wikipedia said he disappeared at one point after being imprisoned by Kim Il-Sung. Is he still missing? I can’t find any information about him after the early 1960’s

 

[MarkThompson]

I was looking to see who the oldest Cardinal is. It turns out it’s Most Reverend Francis Hong Yong-ho. Wikipedia said he disappeared at one point after being imprisoned by Kim Il-Sung. Is he still missing? I can’t find any information about him after the early 1960’s

He has certainly been dead for decades, a martyr in odium fidei. Wikipedia reports this 2006 statement of Cardinal Cheong Jin-Suk anent the issue:
There’s no knowledge of priests surviving persecution that came in the late 1940s, when 166 priests and religious were killed or kidnapped. The Pontifical Yearbook continues to describe as “missing” the man who was the bishop of Pyong-yang at the time, Monsignor Francis Hong Yong-ho, who today would be a hundred years old. It’s a gesture by the Holy See to point to the tragedy that the Church in Korea has suffered and is still going through.
Though for what it’s worth, he was not, in fact, a cardinal.