File:Roy Chung defector.jpg

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Description	Photo of U.S Army Private Roy Chung, who defected to North Korea in 1979 by going AWOL while being based with his unit near Bayreuth, West Germany, which was 30 miles from the borders of Czechoslovakia and East Germany. This photo was published in an article within an unknown North Korean newspaper.
Author or copyright owner	unknown DPRK newspaper
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: unknown Immediate source: https://listverse.com/2022/01/08/10-shocking-defections-to-north-korea/ (Pinterest)
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Roy Chung
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	The subject is deceased, so it is not possible to take a free equivalent. This is also the only known image of the subject which exists.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject, who is critically discussed in the article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Its low resolution and use in an educational article should not affect the value of the original work, or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2004
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Roy Chung//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roy_Chung_defector.jpgtrue

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This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Roy Chung":

to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:12, 29 January 2023		131 × 164 (10 KB)	Toadboy123 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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