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naka, and Ms. Miyoshi Soga, the mother of another ac-
knowledged abductee, despite overwhelming evidence of 
North Korean collusion in their disappearances; 
Whereas North Korean abductions have not been limited to 
northeast Asia and many documented abductees have 
been kidnapped while abroad, such as Mr. Lee Chae-
hwan, a young MIT graduate student traveling in Aus-
tria, and Mr. Ko Sang-moon, a South Korean teacher 
kidnapped in Norway, making the issue of serious con-
cern to the international community; 
Whereas there have been credible reports that North Korea 
may have abducted citizens from many other countries in 
addition to South Korea and Japan, including persons 
from China, Europe, and the Middle East; 
Whereas North Korea routinely engaged in the kidnapping of 
South Korean citizens during the Korean War from 1950 
to 1953, and, according to a 1956 survey conducted by 
the Korean National Red Cross, 7,034 South Korean ci-
vilians were abducted during the conflict; 
Whereas Pyongyang has refused to allow the release of a sin-
gle wartime abductee despite a provision allowing civilian 
abductees to return home in Article III of the Korean 
War Armistice Agreement, a document signed by rep-
resentatives from the United States, North Korea, and 
China; 
Whereas for more than fifty years, North Korea has held 
South Korean prisoners-of-war captured during the Ko-
rean War, in clear violation of Article III of the Korean 
War Armistice Agreement signed on July 27, 1953, and 
the South Korean Ministry of National Defense estimates 
that 542 captives are still alive in North Korea, accord-
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ing to testimony given before the National Assembly in 
February 2005; 
Whereas according to the testimony of prisoners-of-war who 
have successfully escaped from North Korea, South Ko-
rean prisoners-of-war have been forced to perform hard 
labor for decades, often in mines, and are harshly treated 
by the Pyongyang regime; 
Whereas after being forcibly held in North Korea for fifty-
one years, South Korean prisoner-of-war Han Man-taek, 
age 72, escaped to China, was detained by Chinese police 
and forcibly repatriated to North Korea earlier this year, 
where he inevitably faced punitive measures and possible 
execution; and 
Whereas these South Korean prisoners-of-war served under 
the United Nations Command, fighting alongside their 
American and Allied fellow soldiers, and therefore are the 
direct concern of the Allied nations who contributed 
forces during the Korean War: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress—
(1) condemns the Government of the Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea for the abduction 
and continued captivity of citizens of the Republic of 
Korea and Japan as acts of terrorism and gross vio-
lations of human rights; 
(2) calls upon the North Korean Government to 
immediately cease and desist from carrying out ab-
ductions, release all victims of kidnapping and pris-
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oners-of-war still alive in North Korea, and provide 
a full and verifiable accounting of all other cases; 
(3) recognizes that resolution of the nuclear 
issue with North Korea is of critical importance, 
however, this should not preclude United States 
Government officials from raising abduction cases 
and other critical human rights concerns in any fu-
ture negotiations with the North Korean regime; 
(4) calls upon the United States Government 
not to remove the Democratic People’s Republic of 
Korea from the Department of State’s list of State 
Sponsors of Terrorism until such time that North 
Korea renounces state-sponsored kidnapping and 
provides a full accounting of all abduction cases; and 
(5) admonishes the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China for the forced repatriation to 
North Korea of Han Man-taek, a South Korean 
prisoner-of-war and comrade-in-arms of the United 
States, and for its failure to exercise sovereign con-
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trol over teams of North Korean agents operating 
freely within its borders.
Passed the House of Representatives July 11, 2005. 
Attest:
Clerk.