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Letter to International Committee of Red Cross

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society and the DPRK Society for Human Rights Studies on August 27 sent a letter to the International Committee of Red Cross denouncing the United States and the south Korean authorities for committing such inhumane acts as abducting 468 DPRK citizens and taking them away to south Korea in two batches on July 27 and 28 under the mask of "defectors from the north". The letter said:
    This is not the first time that the south Korean authorities allured and abducted northerners but they have long systematically committed such crimes, the letter said, and went on: Taking advantage of the U.S. policy to stifle the DPRK, they perpetrated such acts after setting up many bodies and organizations and sending personages that specialize in alluring and abducting "defectors from the north" in other countries and regions close to Korea.
    Such acts of the south Korean authorities have divided more families and relatives in the era of reunification after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration in Korea, adding to the misfortune and sufferings of Koreans.
    It is intolerable that foreign forces have forced Korean families and relatives to live separated from each other in the north and the south for more than half a century, not allowing them to visit and meet each other.
    And it cannot but be a serious humanitarian issue that there cropped up another sort of issue of separated families and relatives in the peace time, not in the wartime.
    We hold that the U.S. and the south Korean authorities' base act of alluring and abducting "defectors from the north" should not be tolerated internationally.
    Now that exchange and cooperation are getting brisk between the north and the south of Korea the appearance of more separated families and relatives can never be overlooked in view of the humanitarian idea of Red Cross or respect for human rights or the desire of the Korean nation for reunification.
    It is our hope that your organization will take every possible step to deter the U.S. and the south Korean authorities from alluring and taking away DPRK citizens under the mask of "defectors from the north."