Taken!
Subtitle: North Korea's Criminal Abduction of Citizens of Other Countries
By: by Yoshi Yamamoto
Contributors: Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Publisher: Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780985648084
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Disappeared persons (International law); Political kidnapping; International status
Other titles: North Korea's criminal abduction of citizens of other countries
Description: North Korea is kidnapping citizens of foreign countries and holding them incommunicado, this report alleges. According to the report the North is holding residents of a number of European and Asian countries. There may be hundreds of abductees inside North Korea who are not known to be there. The regime undertakes to abduct its victims in absolute secrecy, and detains them indefinitely in closely monitored circumstances which do not permit them to come in contact with many people even inside North Korea. The opportunities the outside world has to learn of them are obviously extremely limited, and this is by design. Those on the outside of North Korea must accordingly be very careful about drawing conclusions about the abductees. We should not, for example, conclude that Kim Jong-il terminated North Korea's practice of abductions because he admitted that abductions had occurred in the past. His admission was not the whole truth, his government has provided false and unsubstantiated assertions since the admission, and demands for thorough bilateral investigations have repeatedly been denied by North Korea. It is difficult to conclude that the regime has anything more to hide on this issue, because it continues to hide the facts.
Notes: "A special report by The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea"--Cover.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 9; title: Chapter 1: How people from other countries are taken, and trapped in North Korea
pagenum: 14; title: Chapter 2: Some foreigners entered North Korea of their own free will but also found themselves trapped in captivity.
pagenum: 34; title: Chapter 3: How abductees have been treated in North Korea.
pagenum: 38; title: Chapter 4: How the regime used captive foreigners.
pagenum: 61; title: Chapter 5: The institutional apparatus that conducts abductions.
pagenum: 72; title: Chapter 6: Those left behind were also victims.
pagenum: 82; title: Chapter 7: The legal implications of North Korea's abductions.
pagenum: 100; title: Chapter 8: Conclusions and recommendations.
pagenum: 117; title: Quick reference guide to the individuals mentioned in this report.
pagenum: 131