NORTH KOREA vs. JAPANESE ABDUCTEES
[Updated in February 2012]
North Korea is going to demolish the cooling tower of its nuclear reactor.
But, it is said in Japan that President Mr. George W. Bush has failed and Secretary Ms. Condoleezza Rice must suffer the aftermath:
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And President Bush not only pledged to lift some sanctions on the North, but also said he would remove the Stalinist regime from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.-----------------
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7476625.stm
So, I have to write some for Mr. and Mrs. Arimoto whose daughter was kidnapped by North Korea decades ago like the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yokota, nonetheless, who was once invited to the White House, Washington D.C.
SECTION I: AMERICA NOT AS SUPER-POWER
There is no such a geopolitical position as North Korea, since technically the Korean War is yet to be completed.
There is no such a geopolitical position as the Korean Peninsula, since nuclear armed America, Russia, and China as well as potential military super-power Japan are directly confronted with one another.
If the US troops invaded Iraq, as actually it did, they would only meet Iraqi troops without air defense.
If the US troops invaded Afghanistan, as actually it did, they would only meet Taliban or AlQaeda gunmen.
But, if the US troops invaded North Korea, thousands of missiles would be fired from North Korea to South Korea and Japan, and a million Chinese troops equipped with, or supported by, modern weapons and hundreds of modern fighter planes and bombers would join North Korea, while Russia might like to test their advanced weapons on any accidental chance at its border to North Korea and Japan.
Indeed, the US military power is not overwhelming at all in this area, unless it uses its mighty nuclear weapons.
And, now as North Korea is equipped with at least a few nuclear bombs, a military solution cannot be an option even in order to stop the act of terror by North Korea: abduction of hundreds of Japanese and South Koreans, state business of selling and distributing drugs and fake dollar bills, and secret export of its missile and nuclear technologies to Islamic countries, etc.
But, President Mr. George W. Bush has officially admitted that North Korea must be taken away from the list of terrorists, so that North Korea can freely access its five billion dollar assets in foreign banks that have been frozen due to economic sanctions.
Indeed, the U.S. can declare war against isolated Iraq and weak Afghanistan, but the U.S. cannot fight against North Korea with thousands of missiles that can reach Seoul and Tokyo, nuclear bombs that can smash tens of thousands of US ground troops, and the Chinese backup with hundreds of modern fighter planes and nuclear missiles, in addition to direct pressure from the Russian military forces.
The US military forces deployed in East Asia are no more threats to North Korea and China, since they cannot be used for one-side invasion, as long as the two countries have no intention to use preemptively their military force against Taiwan or South Korea.
(Will North Korea launch military invasion of the South, taking the expected counterattacks from the U.S. lightly in any future, with or without acquiescence of or collusion with China? This can be a theme of another conspiracy theory, though.)
President Mr. George W. Bush has proved that the U.S. is not a super-power at all. The U.S. is simply stronger than Saddam Hussein's troops and the Taliban who have no threatening missiles, air forces, and nuclear weapons.
This must be the end of American Dream in East Asia.
Money China can invest in the U.S. has won. The U.S. cannot make an enemy out of China. All the super-rich Americans and the Bilderbergers want and need China's money.
All America has to do is to sign a treaty to officially put an end to the Korean War that was set off in 1950.
And, America should sign a peace treaty with China and North Korea, as well.
Accordingly, US troops should withdraw from the Korean Peninsula and the Okinawa Islands.
Then, peoples in East Asia will live peacefully forever...as brainwashed liberals in Japan wish...
Wait! Wait! But what about hundreds of Japanese and South Korean abductees having been kidnapped by North Korean agents in these decades?
SECTION II: JAPANESE ABDUCTEES BY NORTH KOREA
You can use the keywords “Japanese abductees" and "North Korea" together to search and find articles and reports on these themes on the Internet, for example:
1. North Korean abductions of Japanese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1 Talks between North Korea and Japan in 2002 and aftermath. 1.1 Return of five victims ... The proposal condemned North Korea for "systematic humanitarian ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese - 66k - Cached
2. OneFreeKorea " NK Hints More Japanese Abductees May Be Freed
An ex-soldier's Web log focusing on military, political, and human rights issues in North Korea, South Korea, and Northeast Asia.
freekorea.us/2008/05/29/nk-hints-more-japanese-abductees-may-be-freed - 62k - Cached
3. North Korea - The Japanese Card
North Korea has been an international drama since its inception, and after half ... perfidious treatment of Japanese abductees (regardless that Japan did it's best ...
thormay.net/koreadiary/japansnkoreacard.htm - Cached
4. Covering North Korea: Lost In Purgatory: The Story of South Korean ...
... as 3,790 South Koreans, most of them male, have been abducted by North Korea ... Jong-Il in 2002 and succeeded in securing the release of five Japanese abductees. ...
journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/north_korea/2005/10/... - Cached
5. Asia Times
BUSAN, South Korea - North Korea has been an international drama since its ... the perfidious treatment of Japanese abductees (regardless that Japan did its ...
www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EB20Dg01.html - Cached
6. North Korea frees Japanese abductees' children
North Korea on Saturday allowed five young men and women whose Japanese parents it abducted decades ago to return to their families
www.cbc.ca/news/story/2004/05/23/nk040522.html - Cached
7. Tokyo warns North Korea on abductees - International Herald Tribune
... government to impose economic sanctions on North Korea if the North does not help ... It also demanded that Pyongyang return all surviving Japanese abductees. ...
www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/13/news/abduct.php - Cached
8. Why North Korea kidnapped Japanese citizens. - By Brendan I. Koerner ...
At a six-nation summit on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, Japan is pressing Kim Jong-il's government for more info on the fates of the Japanese abductees who were ...
www.slate.com/id/2087627 - Cached
9. Rice says U.S. won't forget Japanese abductees - Yahoo! Canada News
North Korea expected to hand over nuclear report Reuters. North Korea nuclear program to dominate G8 ministerial meeting in Japan The Canadian Press ...
ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/.../us/politics_korea_north_usa_japan_dc_1 - Cached
10. N. Korea abductees saga tugs Japanese heartstrings - Boston.com
Yokota and other Japanese abductees have rarely been out of the news in the four ... Washington has been focused on North Korea's nuclear arms program, although it ...
boston.com/news/.../n_korea_abductees_saga_tugs_japanese_heartstrings
11. Individuals Abducted from Other Countries / Abductions of Japanese ...
North Korea has not, however, offered adequate ... These groups are actively interacting and collaborating with the families of Japanese abductees. ...
www.rachi.go.jp/en/ratimondai/other.html - Cached
12. Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
... tragic for Japan, Koizumi, Japanese abductees, the missing and their anguished, anxious kin. ... North Korea claims Taguchi died in 1986. ...
www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FL16Dh02.html - Cached
13. [PDF] North Korea's Abduction of Japanese Citizens and the Six-Party Talks
73k - Adobe PDF - View as HTML
be contingent on North Korean progress in accounting for the Japanese abductees. A. House hearing in April 2006 focused on North Korea's abductions of foreign citizens, ...
www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22845.pdf
14. Rice says U.S. won't forget Japanese abductees - Yahoo! News
The United States will continue to press for the release of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago by North Korea as it seeks the resumption of disarmament talks ...
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080623/pl_nm/korea_north_usa_japan_dc - Cached
15. In Japan, North Korea abductees are national obsession | csmonitor.com
... lobby in the US, those Japanese abducted by North Korea in the '70s have become a kind of moral ... from Korea for Japanese abductees 10/25/02. Historic ...
www.csmonitor.com/2006/1115/p04s01-woap.html - 83k - Cached
16. North Korea admits it abducted more Japanese citizens | Japan Probe
... the abductee issue central to relations with North Korea has resulted in the release of new ... OneFreeKorea " NK Hints More Japanese Abductees May Be Freed ...
www.japanprobe.com/?p=4708 - 53k - Cached
17. Taipei Times - archives
North Korea accused Japan yesterday of breaking promises and trying to "stifle" ... told their Japanese counterparts the "detention of five Japanese abductees ...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/02/15/2003098833/print - Cached
18. CNN.com - North Korea threatens missile tests - Nov. 5, 2002
... he is not taking seriously a threat from North Korea to resume missile tests if bilateral normalization talks fail. ... Japanese abductees, taken from their homeland in ...
archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/.../05/nkorea.missiles/index.html - Cached
19. Japan's radio broadcasts to North Korea to reach Japanese abductees ...
Japan's radio broadcasts to North Korea to reach Japanese abductees. Front page / World ... North Korea has admitted taking 13 Japanese, and in 2002 it ...
english.pravda.ru/news/world/09-07-2007/94695-japan_korea-0 - Cached
20. Points of Contention with the North Korean Position / Abductions of ...
North Korea has not, however, ... credibility of North Korea's account is in ... North Korea's claim that they have no knowledge of their whereabouts is ...
www.rachi.go.jp/en/mondaiten/index.html - Cached
...there are so many which, however, most of journalists in the world don't know.
These are the proofs of what the two autocratic states of China and North Korea have been doing.
Those identified with or regarded as the enemy of the Communist Party or the Labor Party in China or North Korea, respectively, are put into starvation leading to death or deprived of any human rights; their number is millions and more in China and North Korea.
Top leaders of China and North Korea are brainwashing people and even themselves, telling them that Japanese and Americans, most of whom are actually the enemy of Marxism and authoritarianism, are the enemy of the poor peoples in China and North Korea.
They will never release Japanese and South Korean abductees from North Korea, if the mainstream members of China and North Korea get rich and richer through trade with the U.S.
The only solution is a regime change in each country for democracy: China and North Korea.
Bloodless revolution, not a civil war, must break out in China and North Korea so that democracy is introduced peacefully.
Only democratic China and North Korea can release Japanese abductees and South Korean abductees.
(For this purpose, we have to ultimately disarm China and North Korea or at least force them to adopt a new pacifist constitution each that denies the state right of an aggresive war or the maintenance of military forces for such a war like the Japanese Constitution...)
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This is so far what I can say to Mr. and Mrs. Arimoto whose daughter was kidnapped by North Korea decades ago like the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yokota, nonetheless, who was once invited to the White House, Washington D.C.
But, I don't think their daughters were killed in North Korea while 2.8 million people are believed to have died of starvation there in late 1990's.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/57740.stm
Appendix I. Japanese Having been Forcibly Taken Away from Japan (and during their traveling in Europe) by North Korean Agents:
Locations of abduction:
Appendix II. Worldwide North Korean Operation to Abduct Foreign Citizens
North Korean Abduction Victims Worldwide
| Nationality | Number of Victims | Sources／Notes |
| South Korean | 82,959(1) | Recognized by ROK government. |
| 489(2) | Recognized by ROK government. | |
| Japanese | 19 about 100 | Recognized by Japanese government. Two Korean residents of Japan (children) included .Additional Victims estimated by Families Association and NARKN. |
| Lebanese | 4 | Abducted in 1978 and returned home in late 1979.One was married in North Korea to a US serviceman, a deserter. |
| Thai | 1 | This victim was married in North Korea to a US serviceman, a deserter. |
| Romanian | 1 | This victim was married in North Korea to a US serviceman, a deserter. |
| Chinese | 2 | Choi Un-hee, a South Korean abductee who later returned home, met and talked with one of these two victims while in North Korea. |
| Malaysian | 4 | Choi Un-hee heard about one of these victims while in North Korea.Four Malaysian women disappeared from Singapore all on the same date in August 1978. Mr.Jenkins saw a woman who very much looked like one of them in Pyongyang later. |
| Singaporean | 1 | A Singaporean woman disappeared along with above mentioned Malaysian women. |
| French | 3 | An abducted Lebanese victim saw these French abductees in 1978. Choi Un-hee and Kim Hyon-hi, a KAL bomber, heard about one of them while in North Korea. |
| Italian | 3 | Abducted Lebanese saw them in 1978 in a North Korean spy camp. |
| Dutch | 2 | Abducted Lebanese saw them in 1978 in a North Korean spy camp. |
| Jordanian | 1 | Choi Un-hi saw this victim while in North Korea. |
(2)abductees after 1953ceasefire
http://www.sukuukai.jp/narkn/
Appendix III. North Korean Spy Boat Chased by Japan Coast Guard Ships
In December 2001, a North Korean spy boat blasted itself after an exchange of fire with Japanese coast guard ships.
Appendix IV. Megumi Yokota, the Most Focused on Japanese Abductee
http://nyt.trycomp.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5329
Ms. Megumi Yokota's North Korean Husband in North Korea,
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/n-itoh/e/56ec29ce937227c7d884699c77ae38fb
http://ichiro.txt-nifty.com/suillus/2006/07/post_dfe8.html
http://www.tanteifile.com/tamashii/scoop_2004/11/15_02/index.html
North Korea said that Ms. Megumi Yokota died in North Korea in 1993 by committing suicide after having suffered a mental illness. But, nobody believes such a cheap story in Japan.
http://obaco2.seesaa.net/upload/detail/image/20061209-04890484-jijp-int-view-001-thumbnail2.jpg.html
Appendix V. North Krean Spy Office
Any secret can be revealed as if it were shouted from a rooftop as Christ Jesus said so.
Room 39
Room 39 (also referred to as Bureau 39, Division 39, or Office 39) is a secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea government organization that seeks ways to maintain the foreign currency slush fund of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il...
Very little is known about Room 39 due to the secretive nature surrounding the organization, but it is widely speculated that the organization uses 10 to 20 bank accounts in China and Switzerland for the purposes of counterfeiting, money laundering and other illicit transactions. It is also alleged that Room 39 is involved in drug smuggling and illicit weapon sales. It is known, however, that the organization has 120 foreign trade companies under its jurisdiction and is under the direct control of Kim Jong-il. North Korea has denied taking part in any illegal activities.[citation needed] Room 39 is also involved in the management of foreign currency earnings from foreigners' hotels in Pyongyang, gold and zinc mining, and agricultural and fisheries exports. Companies believed to be controlled by Room 39 include Zokwang Trading and Taesong Bank.
A 2007 report published by the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations said North Korea makes an estimated $500 million to $1 billion annually from criminal enterprises.
In 2009, a Washington Post report outlined a global insurance fraud scheme by the North Korean government. The state-owned Korea National Insurance Corp sought reinsurance contracts with international reinsurers and then submitted fraudulent claims; the contracts were governed by North Korean law and legal challenges were fruitless.
Room 39 is also believed to be operating an overseas North Korean restaurant chain, Pyongyang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
So, Western socialism or communism is convenient for the dictator and his cronies. Capitalism is evil. So, any mean strategies can be justified in a war against the capitalistic nations. As the US, Japan, and South Korea are so evil because of capitalism they are based on, North Korea can do any cruel things against these countries. This is their justification. And, some liberal Japanese are brainwashed by this false doctrine. It is suspected some Japanese citizens, politicians, and gangsters have some association or a business tie with North Korean secret agencies.
http://sanpoukojin.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/2377095/
Appendix VI. North Krean Missiles
Types of North Korean missiles:
Defense and Monitoring by Japan and the U.S. with Aegis Destroyers:
Appendix VII. North Krean Leader Kim Jong-Il Died
His death is a kind of mystery in terms of how and when he really died, though his death was announced on the Monday of December 19, 2011.
But, it is widely recognized that his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, is now being set up as a kind of Kim Jong-il's successor. It is said that it is secret in North Korea that Kim Jong-un's mother was born in Japan and spent her childhood in Osaka, the central city in western Japan.
Ko Young-hee (c. 16 June 1953 – c. 13 August 2004), also known as Ko Yong-hui,[1] was North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il's consort.
Ko was born of Korean descent in Ikuno, Osaka, Japan,[2]At the age of 11, her family moved to North Korea in May, 1961. In the early 1970s, she began to work as a dancer for the Mansudae Art Troupe in Pyongyang.
She was the mother of two of Kim Jong-il's sons, Kim Jong-chul and Kim Jong-un, the latter of whom has been named as the successor to their father. On 27 August 2004, various sources reported that she had died, probably of breast cancer.Indeed, there are many South and North Korean residents living in Japan. It is because the Empire of Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula in the first half of the 20th century due to Koreans' inability to cope with external invading power of Russia and to govern the nation in a modern and civilized manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Young-hee
Koreans in Japan
According to the statistics at Immigration Bureau of Japan, there were 565,989 Koreans in Japan in 2010. This figure does not include those who have adopted Japanese citizenship.
The 2005 figures are as follows:[4]
- Those with permanent resident status (general and special categories): 515,570
- Naturalized Japanese citizens: 284,840
- Long-term visitors: 82,666
- Korean students in Japan: 18,208
- Total: 901,284
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan
Appendix VIII. Events After PM Koziumi's Visit to North Korea (DPRK)
According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the sequence of events after the visit by Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi to North Korea in 2002 is as follows:
(1) First Japan-DPRK Summit Meeting (September 17, 2002)
At the first Japan-DPRK summit meeting held on September 17, 2002, Kim Jong-Il, after years of denial, admitted the abductions of Japanese citizens and apologized. He also said that, of the 13 abduction victims, four were alive, eight were dead and that the entrance to North Korea could not be confirmed for one. In addition, he confirmed the abduction and existence of Hitomi Soga (although he claimed that Miyoshi Soga, her mother who had disappeared at the same time, had not entered North Korea). Moreover, while promising to punish those responsible and to prevent any recurrence, he assured that he would facilitate meetings between the victims and their families as well as their return to Japan. Then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi strongly protested and demanded a continued investigation, the return of those alive and the prevention of any recurrence
(2) Dispatch of Investigation Team of the Government of Japan (September and October 2002)
(3) The Return to Japan by Five Victims (October 15, 2002)
(4) Second Japan-DPRK Summit Meeting (May 22, 2004)
On May 22, 2004, then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited North Korea for the second time and engaged in discussions concerning the abduction and other bilateral issues as well as security issues such as North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.
(5) Japan-DPRK Working-Level Consultations (August, September, and November 2004)
(6) Japan-DPRK Comprehensive Talks (February 2006)
(7) Ballistic Missile Launches and the Announcement of a Nuclear Test by North Korea (July and October 2006)
(8) Working Group on the Normalization of Japan-DPRK Relations (March and September 2007)
(9) Japan-DPRK Working-Level Consultations (June and August 2008)
(10) Missile Launches and a Nuclear Test Conducted by North Korea (April, May and July 2009)
(11) Torpedo attack on an ROK naval vessel by North Korea (March 2010)
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/n_korea/abduction/pdfs/abductions_en.pdf
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That is all for today, though the G8 Summit and the Beijing Olympic Games are coming closer.
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