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the abductions
by North Korea
Since the1950s, North Korea has been abducting many innocent Japanese citizens, using numerous agents, to foce them to work for North Korea to teach Japanese to spies, counterfeit dollar bills, make stimulants, and to make atomic bombs and missiles, etc.
This was under the order of the late Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea. It is suspected that more than 500 people were kidnapped from Japan. Besides Japan, the nationals of the following 11 countries were also abducted
South Korea, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Romania, Lebanon, Jordan, The Netherlands, France, and Italy.
To rescue them, we are collecting signatures to push the Japanese Government to impose sanctions on North Korea
Individual Cases
The symbol of our work, a blue ribbon
1 November 15, 1977: Abduction Case Involving a Young Girl Megumi Yokota (13, Niigata Prefecture)
Disappeared on her way home from school in Niigata city. While being taken to North Korea in the spy ship, she kept crying, Mom, help me ! Mom, mom She was only 13 years old.
For details of other abducted people, please see the homepage of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/n_korea/abduction/pdfs/abductions_en.pdf