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- From: hnkst2+@pitt.edu (Hanhwe N Kim)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
- Subject: The missing Japanese lady (Re: Maybe you'all don't understand!)
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 09:04:22 GMT
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- (Rikiya Asano) writes:
- >
- >First of all, I would like to thank you for you very informative post. I
- >am also delighted that I learnt this from a Korean. It is against
- >Nippon's constitution
- >for the Government to partake in any spying in any form. N. Ko-ryo is no
- >threat to Nippon therefore any spying there is considered "Offensive".
- >"Trying to verify", this is very bias to me. If this woman was kidnapped
- >from Nippon, surely her family/friends would would have come forward and
- >'everyone' in the 'free' world would have been bombarded with this
- >information from then until the day Christ Jesus comes!
-
- The woman was not a spy working for Japan or anything like that but
- an ordinary Japanese lady who supposedly had been kidnapped to North Korea.
- She only ended up working for the North Koreans as a Japanese Language
- instructor after she was kidnapped to North Korea.
-
- I think the problem that the Japanese officials are having trouble with
- is establishing the identity of the women in the first place. Note that
- everywhere there are many people who disappear not only from foul play
- such as kidnapping or murder but for other reasons as well. Sometimes
- people don't want to be found ... maybe they owe money to somebody or
- felt really depressed...
-
- The first time the Japanese ever heard about this woman was from a
- somewhat sketchy testimony from a North Korean agent who had been
- captured by the South Koreans. The Japanese government would first
- have to search through past files for a missing person who matches
- the description given in the agent's testimony. I'm not even sure they have
- any pictures of the woman. So she could be one of many people have
- been reported missing, or even worse if she did not have anybody
- close to her one of the people who are not reported missing. Already
- this sounds like a pretty difficult task.
-
- As for the woman's friends or family, if indeed she was kidnapped by the
- North Koreans, they would not know about it. They'd be just one of many
- people in Japan who had somebody they know disappear for no apparant reason.
-
- Since everything starts from such sketchy traces, I doubt the Japanese
- can establish anything without the cooperation of the North Koreans,
- which I think they are rightfully trying to obtain.
- -Hanhwe Kim
-