“resolved” and promised to carry out a full-scale investigation in June 2008, it has yet to take any specific action to resolve the issue, asserting that “the issue of abduction had been resolved” at a meeting of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights situation in North Korea held by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in December 2009.

### b. Objectives of Abduction

At the Japan-North Korea summit meeting in September 2002, North Korean National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong Il explained that the objectives of abducting Japanese nationals were, "First, to make it possible to learn Japanese language at the special agency, and second, to enter the south (South Korea) using the identity of someone else." A former wife of one of the suspects in the hijacking of the Yodo-go had testified that she was "ordered to abduct Japanese nationals by Takahiro Tamiya, who said he had been instructed by President Kim Il Sung to 'establish a party to perform a leadership role in Japan for revolution and for the establishment of the party, to find, win over and foster Japanese who will serve as the core of revolution'."

An analysis of this and other information indicates that the objectives of suspected abduction included having abducted Japanese nationals educate North Korean agents so that they could behave like Japanese and enabling North Korean agents to operate in Japan by impersonating abducted Japanese when infiltrating Japan.

Table 4-2 Suspected Cases of Abduction by North Korea in which Victims were Japanese (12 cases, 17 persons)

Occurrence Period	Occurrence Place	Victim (Age at that time)	Case (Incident) Name
1	September-77	Fugeshi District (present Housu District), Ishikawa Prefecture	Mr.Yutaka Kume (52)	Ushitsu Incident
2	October-77	Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture	Ms. Kyoko Matsumoto (29)	Suspected abduction case of a girl
3	November-77	Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture	Ms. Megumi Yokota (13)	Suspected abduction case of a girl
4	Around the month of June 1978	Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture	Mr. Minoru Tanaka (28)	Suspected abduction case of a former restaurant worker
5	Around the month of June 1978	Unknown	Ms. Yaeko Taguchi (22)	Suspected abduction case of Ri Unhye
6	July-78	Obama City, Fukui Prefecture	Mr. Yasushi Chimura (23) Ms. Fukie Chimura (original family name: Hamamoto) (23)	Suspected abduction case of a couple (Fukui)
7	July-78	Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture	Mr. Kaoru Hasuike (20) Ms. Yukiko Hasuike (original family name: Okudo) (22)	Suspected abduction case of a couple (Niigata)
8	August-78	Hioki District (present Hioki City), Kagoshima Prefecture	Mr. Shuichi Ichikawa (23) Ms. Rumiko Masumoto (24)	Suspected abduction case of a couple (Kagoshima)
9	August-78	Sado District (present Sado City), Niigata Prefecture	Ms. Hitomi Soga (19) Ms. Miyoshi Soga (46)	Suspected abduction case of a mother and daughter
10	Around the month of May 1980	Europe	Mr. Toru Ishioka (22) Mr. Kaoru Matsuki (26)	Suspected abduction case of Japanese males in Europe
11	Mid-June 1980	Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture	Mr. Tadaaki Hara (43)	Sin Kwang Su incident
12	Around the month of July 1983	Europe	Ms. Keiko Arimoto (23)	Suspected abduction case of a Japanese female in Europe

Note: Five people, namely Mr. Yasushi Chimura, Ms. Fukie Chimura (original family name: Hamamoto), Mr. Kaoru Hasuike, Ms. Yukiko Hasuike (original family name: Okudo), and Ms. Hitomi Soga returned to the country in October 2002 after 24 years.

Table 4-3 Suspected Cases of Abduction by North Korea in which Victims were not Japanese (1 cases, 2 persons)

Occurrence Period	Occurrence Place	Victim (Age at that time)	Case (Incident) Name
Mid-June 1974	Obama City, Fukui Prefecture	Ms. KO Kyongmi (7) Mr. KO Kang (3)	Suspected abduction case of a sister and brother