
NK Statements to The UN
May 9, 2012: The three cases mentioned are not cases of enforced disappearances. There is no person in my country who has been enforced or involuntarily disappeared or detained against his …
Read MoreA Call for Justice
May 9, 2012: The three cases mentioned are not cases of enforced disappearances. There is no person in my country who has been enforced or involuntarily disappeared or detained against his …
Read MoreNovember 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 …
Read MoreFebruary 15, 1970: North Korea set free 33 men and 6 women Saturday, more than two months after an airliner in which they were passengers was flown to the north. …
Read MoreFebruary 15, 1970: Thirty-nine passengers of a hijacked South Korean airliner returned to loved ones Saturday after spending 65 days in detention in Communist North Korea. Twelve others, including the …
Read MoreFebruary 15, 1970: North Korea, giving less than 20 minutes notification, allowed 31 of the 50 people on board the Korean Airlines plane diverted just over two months ago to …
Read MoreJanuary 25, 1970. From the archives of The Korea Times, those anxiously awaiting news of the victims received encouraging news some six weeks after the hijacking:
Read MoreDecember 14, 1969. North Korea’s official news agency said early Saturday that the Korean commercial airliner flown into North Korea Thursday was taken there by its two pilots who elected to …
Read MoreDecember 13, 1969. Radio Pyongyang indicated today the hijacking of a South Korean airliner to North Korea Thursday was the work of the two pilots who were asking political asylum. The …
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