A Call for Justice
October 15, 2013: North Korea is still holding 516 South Koreans abducted since the end of the Korean War in 1953, including 11 from a Korean Air Lines passenger aircraft that …
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September 1, 2013: Thanks to Google Books, the following excerpts from Building Bridges: Is There Hope for North Korea? by David Alton and Rob Chidley that concern the hijacking are available:
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January 5, 2013: … Hwang gathered as much information as he could and met the survivors. “Although Korean society has forgotten the incident, I live that day everyday.” One survivor, Park …
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November 5, 2012: Families of 11 South Korean citizens abducted by North Korea in 1969 plan to visit the North’s representatives to the United Nations in Switzerland to raise pressure on …
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Thirteen-minute documentary courtesy of Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights in English:
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February 15, 2012: Hwang In-cheol, the head of an advocacy group for the victims of the 1969 hijacking of Korean Air Flight YS-11, has filed a lawsuit against one of …
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February 15, 2012: Families whose parents or relatives were abducted by a North Korean spy 42 years ago submitted an official complaint to the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office yesterday. On Dec. …
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February 14, 2012: Hwang In-cheol was only 26 months old when his father got on a plane for a business trip to Seoul on Dec. 11, 1969. The son hasn’t seen …
Read More September 28, 2014: On Dec. 11, 1969, a Korean Air Lines YS-11 aircraft flying from Gangneung, Gangwon, to Gimpo International Airport was hijacked by a North Korean spy at 12:36 p.m. …
Read More September 20, 2011: For most, the 1969 hijacking of a South Korean airliner by an armed North Korean agent has faded into history. But for Hwang In-chul, whose father was …
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