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Letter to Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Society for Human Rights Studies and the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society on August 28 sent a letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights complaining to it about the criminal actions taken by the U.S. and south Korean authorities to abduct DPRK citizens and take them to south Korea under the mask of "defectors." The south Korean authorities perpetrated such terrorism as alluring and abducting 468 DPRK citizens in broad daylight and taking them to south Korea under the mask of "defectors from the north" in two batches on July 27 and 28, the letter said, and continued:
    It is not the first time that the authorities committed such unethical and inhumanitarian crime. They have, in fact, systematically abducted DPRK citizens for years.
    This was an organized and premeditated allurement and abduction carried out under the manipulation of the U.S. as part of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the policy aimed to tarnish the dignity and the authority of the DPRK and undermine it.
    It is an open secret that the U.S. has deliberately dreamed up the issue of "defectors from the north" in a bid to internationalize and politicize it.
    Pursuant to the U.S. policy to stifle the DPRK the south Korean authorities have set up in countries and regions close to the DPRK institutions and organizations staffed with many agents who specialize in alluring and abducting north Korean "defectors" to perpetrate systematic abduction and terrorism against DPRK citizens.
    The authorities' planned act of alluring and abducting DPRK citizens has divided more families and relatives in the reunification-oriented era after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, adding to the nation's pain and misfortune.
    It is something deplorable that families in the north and the south have lived separated from each other for more than half a century due to outsiders, without being able to visit or see each other. It can not but be a tragedy for the nation that there cropped up another sort of issue of separated families and relatives in the peacetime, not in the wartime.
    The U.S. is keen to bring down the system in the DPRK under the pretext of its "human rights performance" while going frantic in its moves to destroy the DPRK through military threat, blackmail and economic sanctions and blockade. It should stop at once the base and clumsy operation for the "exile of north Korean defectors."
    It plans to take groups of abducted DPRK citizens to what it called "concentration camps for north Korean defectors" set up in areas close to the DPRK. This clearly proves that it has not entitled to talk about "human rights" and "freedom" and it is an empire of evil with the poorest human rights record in which the basic principle of humanitarianism is not observed.
    It is our hope that the office, true to its original mission to observe humanitarianism and respect human rights, would move to stop the U.S. and the south Korean authorities from carrying out such operation.