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 …
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Families Call for Repatriation of 11 Abductees
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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39 Freed by NK
February 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. …
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Hijacked Passengers Finally Return Home
February 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 …
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NK Frees 39 on Plane
February 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 …
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51 Kidnapees Said to be in Good Shape
January 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 More NK Says Pilots Hijacked Airliner
December 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 …
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Reds Claim Hijack Pilots Want Asylum
December 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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