Rescue Japanese Abductees Still Confined in North Korea!

A North Korean defector living in Seoul, South Korea testified yesterday that Ms. Megumi Yokota (See a note below) had been alive in 2004.

The defector was told by an officer in charge of Japan at Wokers' Party of Korea (DPRK) that Ms. Megumi is alive but we can not let her go back to Japan since she has been exposed to secrecy.

The defector further stated that cremated remains handed over to Japan by DPRK at the working level meeting between Japan and North Korea on November 2004 was not hers but just fake.

Note:

Ms. Megumi Yokota was abducted on November 15, 1977 at the age of thirteen and apparently forced to help train North Korean spies to pass as Japanese citizens. In February 1997, information about Megumi's abduction was given to Yokota's parents from Tatsukichi Hyomoto by a phone call. In 2002, North Korea admitted that she and others had been abducted, but claimed that she had committed suicide on March 13, 1994 (originally announced as 1993 and later corrected to 1994) and returned what it said were her cremated remains. Japan stated that a DNA test proved they could not have been her remains, and her family does not believe that she would have committed suicide. She is believed to have been abducted by Sin Gwang-su.