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The Hell-Hole Spectator
Kim Jong-Il, Criminal Abductor
Why isn’t North Korea on the list of terrorism-sponsoring states?
Counterfeiting, nuclear component sales, inhuman treatment of its own people — the list of North Korea’s wrongdoing goes on. Lying is a favorite tool of North Korean diplomacy. During the Clinton Administration the North Koreans promised to dismantle their nuclear program, but continued it. In 2002, when then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited from Japan, Kim Jong-il admitted that North Korea had abducted 13 people from Japan and he was, oh, so sorry.
Case closed, so far as Kim was concerned.
Not quite. He was off only by a figure of 180,295. The Washington, D.C.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea has released a detailed study on the deliberate and systematic program of North Korea to abduct citizens of other countries for various purposes. The study’s title is “TAKEN! North Korea’s Criminal Abductions of Citizens of Other Countries.”
Not long after the end of World War II, North Korea’s founder Kim Il-Sung said, “In order to solve the shortage of intellectuals, we have to bring intellectuals from South Korea.” He meant it literally. The systematic kidnapping program began during the Korean War and immediately after the truce, when the country was short of farmers, factory workers and miners. So, during the war, according to the Committee’s report, North Korea snatched 82,000 skilled South Koreans and shipped them north. This continued well into the 1980s.
“In the 1960s,” according to the report, “93,000 Koreans were lured from Japan and held against their will. A decade later, children of North Korean agents were kidnapped, apparently to blackmail their parents.” Also in the 1970s, foreigners in a position to teach North Korean operatives how to infiltrate targets countries were adducted to teach its spy cadres.
The report by the Washington-based committee is the result of three years of research, according to Chuck Downs, its executive director. Yoshi Yamamoto was the principal researcher on the project.
Among the cases that have come to light is one involving a couple who produced films in South Korea. They were kidnapped in Hong Kong in 1978 and forced to produce films in the North. (They escaped in 1986.)
In London in 1983, a North Korean undercover agent enrolled in a language school. promised a Japanese student there a good job for her in North Korea. She took a flight to Pyongyang and disappeared. More than 3,721 South Korean fishermen were apprehended and forcibly towed into North Korean waters. Altogether, abductees were brought to North Korea for 14 countries, among them France, Italy, the Netherlands, the U.S., Lebanon, Malaysia and Thailand.
Although China is an economic benefactor of North Korean, an estimated 200 Chinese on the border have been abducted to North Korea because they were suspected of helping North Korean escapees.
The Committee report also shows an aerial photo pinpointing what is believed to be the compound where today’s living abductees are domiciled. According to Downs, “If you lived there you would have no idea where you were on the face of the earth. You would just think that you are in a valley surrounded by mountains.”
Richard Allen, co-chairman of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, says, “This is an ongoing criminal enterprise.” It certainly is. With its abduction program, North Korea is violating at least eight international laws.
The United States and the rest of its Group of Five — South Korea, Japan, China, Russia — have been lied to by Kim Jong-il time and again. Indeed, the Bush Administration, after the last set of promises-to-be-broken by Kim & Co., took North Korea off the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Mr. Obama, having (to hear him tell it) dispatched Osama bin Laden, should now put North Korea back on the list.
Mr. Hannaford is a board member of the Committee for the Present Danger.
About the Author
Peter Hannaford was closely associated for a number of years with the late President Reagan, beginning in the California Governor’s office. His latest book is Presidential Retreats.
Dee See| 5.27.11 @ 8:17AM
WHY? because it is a vital buffer state for the most
awesomely genocidal regime history has ever
seen ---and that place, as we know, is our Globalist/EUGENIST's
'fave' laboratory and 'model for tomorrow'.
NOTICE, while Hollywood endlessly recycles
the done-to-death WW2, amd, lately the Civil War
---the 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, and last year 60th
Anniversaries of the astoundingly relevant
(Globalism/EUGENICS/treason/betrayal)
KOREAN WAR have, one and all, been 'overlooked'.
Alan Brooks| 5.27.11 @ 8:40PM
THANKS, DEE SEE: YOU MAKE ME APPEAR ALMOST SANE BY COMPARISON!
The woman who Clinton freed said the N. Koreans told her the reason they serve vegetarian fare in starvation portions was because they wanted to promote healthy vegetarian diets. But it is a case of yes to the latter; no to the former.
Alan Brooks| 5.30.11 @ 10:31PM
North Korea has the type of regime I could easily serve under. An islamic North Korea would truly be heaven on earth.
Intelligent Design| 5.27.11 @ 8:56AM
A great book about North Korea is "Rogue Regime" by Jasper Becker.
David W| 5.27.11 @ 10:05AM
The countries of the "free world" are too afraid to act against N. Korea. Maybe it is because of nuclear weapons, or that the leader is a total nutcase. Or maybe, just maybe, too many liberals in the US are in the back pocket of Kim Jong "ill" (if not in his back pocket, you can bet that if the US were to take a more forceful stand - after Obama is out of office - the left would come out of the woodwork demonstrating in support of poor N. Korea (with Carter out in front)).
T H Huxley| 5.27.11 @ 11:16PM
I remember North Korea's first and only nuclear weapons test. We had seismometers, radiation detectors, and all kinds of instruments pointed at this alleged test. The US couldn't decide whether it was a dud or just a bunch of conventional explosives. I'm cowering in my boots just thinking about what North Korea might do next.
JShizzle| 5.27.11 @ 10:57AM
I doubt if Obama would even send his typical "strongly worded letter".....no leadership. Smart Power.
John K| 5.27.11 @ 12:16PM
The North Koreans are expert forgers of everything from US Dollars down. If Barry had asked nicely I am sure they could have made a better job of his "birth certificate" than the Adobe bodge job on the White House website.
ACynic| 5.27.11 @ 2:07PM
"Why isn't North Korea on the list of terrorism-sponsoring states?"
This is an amazingly stupid question. Any and all atrocities committed by communists are ALWAYS rationalized away, ignored or approved of by the fawning left wingers who do not live, nor ever intend to live, in a communist governed nation. The left wing has defined what is good or bad, necessary or not, allowed or disallowed and which groups should be the "anointed" groups and which are the evil groups. In other words, they set the ground rules and they have ruled that communists can do no wrong. Of course, left wingers dominate the media, the state dept., the White House and academia.
There you have it.
Dee See| 5.28.11 @ 2:54AM
ONE and all ------CHECK OUT:
'The Long History of EUGENICS'
-ALAN WATT online or youtube
KEY info as the Globalist op comes full circle.
"That's the whole trouble with the past,
it isn't even past---"
-William Faulkner
CHECK IT OUT! YOU'LL SEE ---------------------
Intelligent Design| 5.28.11 @ 9:06PM
Given his absurd "suggestion" that Israel give up land to the terrorist coalition of PA and Hamas, how long will it be before Obama "demands" that South Korea give up land to appease North Korea? Obama is on the wrong side of freedom. If it had been up to him and people like him, the USSR would still exist. He would have suggested to Churchill that Britain appease Hitler.
ティファニー 通販 | 6.1.11 @ 3:28AM
just right