Japanese Citizens Abducted by North Korea
It is true that the Fuji TV station in Tokyo is one of the major media that most earnestly focus on North Korean issues.
However, the pinball industry (Pachinko Sangyo) seems to sponsor some of its programs, so interestingly.
"For a long time, these abductions were denied by North Korea and were often considered a conspiracy theory.
Despite pressure by Japanese parent groups, the Japanese government itself took no action because the now-defunct Socialist Party of Japan, which had maintained close ties with North Korea, vehemently denied the abductions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese
Yet, we have to first check China, since US troops were actually hindered in freeing the whole Korean Peninsula by Chinese troops in the Korean War in early 1950’s.
SECTION I: BOMBINGS, RIOTS, AND POLLUTION IN CHINA
Japanese TV news program reported that the Chinese people were not officially informed of the recent bus bombings killing and injuring more than ten people in a Chinese local but big city Kunming.
No Chinese domestic TV stations seem to be allowed by the Chinese Government to report the act of terror to its citizens.
http://www.chinacartimes.com/2008/07/22/kunming-bus-bombings-kill-two-injure-14/
I suspect that almost 100,000 riots and violent protests against local authorities and the police occur every year in China, most of which however do not look officially informed the Chinese people of through the domestic media.
http://sinolaw.typepad.com/chinese_law_and_politics_/2007/03/are_mass_incide.html
Now the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are waiting for visits of Japan’s Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda and US President Mr. George W. Bush to join the opening ceremony.
But, Beijing’s air pollution is still enormous in terms of the scale, so that the Chinese Government has recently enforced an executive order that cars with an odd number at the first digit of its license number are admitted into Beijing only on odd days; Similarly, cars with an even numbered license only on even days.
This is breathtaking stupidity. Olympic Games are sports events where safety of human bodies must be respected as the first thing. If the Chinese Government really cares for safety of athletes of the world, they have to abandon the hosting of the Olympic Games.
There are millions of farmers and local residents in China who are suffering unthinkable environmental pollution, since in most cases no human rights of poor farmers are protected and related regulations are all neglected in China.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jul/18/china.pollution?lightbox=1
SECTION II: NORTH KOREA
North Korea is worse than China in terms of human rights, freedom of the media, and environmental pollution.
North Korea still holds Japanese citizens they abducted mainly from mainland Japan in the past decades for covert operations of their intelligent agencies.
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CHUCK DOWNS: Well, they are not. And, unfortunately, the Bush administration shifted its policy about two years ago.
And instead of bringing the other four players that were together on our side of the table together and going in unison to deal with North Korea, the Bush administration decided to have working groups in which a number of interests that are allied interests, like the interests of Japan, would all of a sudden be dealt with on a bilateral basis, between Japan and North Korea, to solve important human rights concerns, such as the treatment of the abductees.
North Korea continues to be a terrorism state. And one of the best indications of that is that every day they commit international terrorism by holding Japanese citizens who do not want to be there, and who have been stolen from their livelihood and from their places in their home country, and made to serve the interests of the regime.
North Korea's not a normal country. It is a terrible tyranny.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, very briefly, before we go -- and we really don't have a lot of time, Selig Harrison -- if the goal is a denuclearized North Korea, are we closer today as a result of this turnover of...
SELIG HARRISON: We are much closer. I don't think we're going to get to the finish line until the next administration, because there are a lot of things to do before this can be wrapped up and before North Korea will surrender its fissile material and we can get it shipped out of the country. Until we do that, this isn't over. So this is...
RAY SUAREZ: And very briefly, Chuck Downs?
CHUCK DOWNS: It's always dangerous to appear to rush to satisfy the North Korean regime's concerns, always dangerous…
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june08/northkorea_06-26.html
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The Chinese Communist Party needs North Korea as a military defense line against the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.
The Chinese Communist leaders cannot accept one unified democratic and free Korea over the whole Korean Peninsula, since such a situation will pose a threat to China’s dictatorship.
If all the Koreans on the unified Korean Peninsula enjoy political and social freedom of the kind Japanese and Americans are enjoying, most of Chinese citizens will flee to Korea over the boarders.
In order to continue to control poor farmers and local citizens in China, the Chinese Communist Party wants North Korea to continue to function as a military defense line under despotism executed by the Kim family.
And, if the Kim family of North Korea claims that they have to still keep Japanese abductees to continue their military despotism, the Chinese Communist Party will give its consent.
Conversely, if the Chinese Communist Party thinks that the North Korea’s policy will badly influence their power base, Chinese leaders will strongly request North Korea to release Japanese abductees.
If North Korea is so resolutely requested by China to return Japanese abductees home, it will eventually obey the request, since the Kim family will face a fatal crisis in its physical existence without political, economic, and military support and assurance from China.
But, it is rather more realistic to think that China is resolutely requesting North Korea not to return Japanese abductees home, since China is afraid of establishment of a friendly relationship between Japan and North Korea.
(It is well known that Chou En-lai, the greatest Chinese politician after WWII [1898 - 1976], told Mr. Henry Kissinger in Beijing in 1971 that China and the U.S. must cooperate in preventing Japan's re-dominance in the Korean Peninsula...)
SECTION III: JAPANESE LIBERALS
From late 1960’s when North Korea started to kidnap some Japanese and to late 1990’s when the Japanese media started to publish articles on Japanese abductees by North Korea, not only liberal politicians but also conservative politicians kept silence to or neglected the existence and the fact of the Japanese abductees cases.
Liberal politicians in Japan are actually those who belong to, or are associated with, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.
Conservative politicians in Japan are those who belong to, or are associated with, the Liberal Democratic Party.
The reason for their decades-long silence on the North Korean act of terror, namely abductions, is, of course, money.
There are more than half a million North Korean residents in Japan, due to Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula from the early 20th century until the end of WWII.
And, the major industry where North Korean residents in Japan are engaged as their profession is pinball parlors.
It is said that 70% of all the North or South Korean residents in Japan are running, or working in, pinball parlors whose market size reaches US$300 billions.
And, until a stern regulation was applied a few years ago, those North Korean residents in Japan, or specifically the pinball industry, had reportedly been sending big funds to North Korea to support the Kim Administration.
( http://pachinkokouryaku.fc2web.com/chousenjin.html )
But, the big money earned in the pin-ball industry has been also channeled to Japanese politicians.
Japanese politicians, whether conservative or liberal, receive money from North Korean residents in Japan or the pin-ball industry, since they need much money for their political activities.
That is why not only liberal politicians but also conservative politicians kept silence to or neglected the existence and the fact of the Japanese abductees cases for decades.
That is why the then Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi’s visit to North Korea, twice in 2002 and 2004, and his discussion with Mr. Kim Jong-IL about Japanese abductees were epoch-making beyond assessment on their success or failure.
In this context, Japanese liberals have been no use and no good with rescue of Japanese abductees.
Japanese liberals regard the U.S. as an enemy, and thus regard China and North Korea as friends.
That is why you cannot trust Japanese liberal journalists and critics in terms of human rights, including the Japanese abductees-by-North Korea case.
It is because they hate so much Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi and Mr. George W. Bush since their short-sighted and selfish sense of justice can find evil only in their enemies in Japan and the U.S. while missing worse evil in China and North Korea; and their extreme hatred for the regimes in Japan and America makes them blind to horrible violence of human rights by the Chinese Communist Party and the Kim family of North Korea.
To solve the North Korean abduction-of-Japanese case, families of the victims and supporters for the families must first persuade Japanese liberals to change their view and abandon their hate for the Japanese Government and the U.S.
It is because the Kim family of North Korea will not change their policy and behaviors, if so many Japanese liberals are so much friendly to China and North Korea while hating so much the Japanese Government and the U.S.
(Some U.S. and European media misunderstand Japanese liberals who are shouting "more human rights" only to the Japanese Government but never to North Korea and China.
They think that Japanese liberals are similar to liberals in the U.S. or Europe.
At the core of Japanese liberal elites are cold Marxism but not warm Christianity, while they do not love Buddhism, either.)
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There are two types of Japanese: liberals and non-liberals.
The former is ultimately friendly to the Kim Family of North Korea, if through profitable association with the Chinese Communist Party or simple hatred for Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi and Mr. George W. Bush.
And, as long as the Kim Family has such friends in Japan, they will maintain Japanese abductees as well as nuclear weapons.
The Japanese families of victims and the U.S. Government should more focus on Japanese liberals if they really want to solve the North Korean problems.
( http://home.att.ne.jp/star/ELS/without_yoo.html )
Mar 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.