FOOTPRINTS | Documenting Those Taken by North Korea Online
Channel: Transitional Justice Working Group
Date: 2021-03-30

FOOTPRINTS, an online database jointly created by 10 NGOs in South Korea and abroad, documents and visualizes reported cases of arbitrary detention, abduction and enforced disappearance in and by North Korea with the hope of seeking redress and justice for the victims and their families.

The first batch of cases documented by FOOTPRINTS concern the over 90,000 civilian abductees and 50,000 prisoners of war (POWs) from South Korea taken by the North Korean forces during the Korean War (1950-1953) and never returned afterwards. You can hear the voices of their family members in this video clip.

Video produced by Sippachai Kunnuwong (Zoom), Digital Media and Research Fellow at TJWG

#Abductees #POWs #Korean_War 

Explore the FOOTPRINTS database: https://nkfootprints.info