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 Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject: Do you like this: Silence and Neglect? |
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A Sorry Tale of Silence and Neglect
Kim Young-nam and four other South Koreans kidnapped in 1977-8 when they were high school students are alive in North Korea.... The parents of the five, on hearing that their children who were not heard from for 30 years are alive, are said to have asked why on earth the government did not tell them until now.
The government knew that its own people, who had disappeared 30 years ago, were working to train North Korean spies, yet for nearly 10 years it never once raised the issue with Pyongyang. What's worse, it didn��t even tell the families, who had agonized about their children's fate for 30 years.
Now the Korean Embassy in the U.S. is avoiding North Korean refugees who were invited by the U.S. government for an official meeting with the president there. The reasoning? If we provoke the North, it does not help resolve the abductee issue.
While Seoul has heard nothing about the South Koreans abducted by the North in return for its own silence, Japan, by offering normal diplomatic ties and economic assistance, got the North to admit that it kidnapped 13 Japanese people, and Prime Minister Koizumi went to Pyongyang in person to bring back five of them and their families.
Chosun Ilbo (April 28, 2006)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200604/200604280029.html |
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