A happy scene at the press conference was Wang's meeting with an old friend from the mainland, pilot Wu Jung-ken, who defected in October 1982 by flying his MIG-19 to South Korea.
廿三日上午，王義士發表了一份投奔自由的聲明，及自白書的序言。在聲明中，他寫出了對故土、親人、朋友的眷戀：「我不忍拋開可愛的大陸、可愛的人們，和師長、戰友、親人。我的家還算美滿，我也有父母、兄妹和報答不完養育之恩的年邁祖母。」