SEOUL: More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for ...
A North Korean soldier keeps watch at the Yalu River in Sinuiju, North Korea, which borders Dandong in China’s Liaoning province - REUTERSpix: More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a Seoul-based human rights group said on Thursday.
The group identified 113 people in 66 disappearance cases, including the cases in an archive, opens new tab run with other international organisations, as well as maps depicting transfer routes. More than 81% vanished after being transferred to and detained by the Ministry of State Security , the North’s secret police known as “bowibu”, according to the report.
Kang Jeong-hyun, director of the project, said the report was intended to underscore enforced disappearances committed by the Kim regime as transnational crimes also involving China and Russia.
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