| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTHERN KOREA REPORT: DECEMBER 27, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (or call1-888-280-7715). Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: SCNK DEMANDS RETURN OF �MEGUMI YOKOTA� REMAINS STALINISTS INFURIATE JAPAN WITH ABDUCTION LIES; SANCTIONS MAY BE COMING With the diplomatic version of unmitigated gall, Stalinist-controlled northern Korea �demanded the return of human remains it gave to Tokyo� (BBC). The remains supposedly belonged to Megumi Yokota, a Japanese citizen abducted by the Stalinists in 1978. The remains have been found to belong to several people, none of them Yokota. SCNK continued their deception, claiming that �the remains are genuine and . . . Megumi Yokota's husband has asked for them back.� The regime claims Yokota killed herself in 1993, but the continuing lies have led many to believe she and seven other �dead� abduction victims are still alive. Five other abductees were allowed to return to Japan. In response, Hiroyuki Hosoda, who as Chief Cabinet Secretary is Japan�s de facto Deputy Prime Minister, made a demand that SCNK �return the survivors� � a clear sign that Tokyo will no longer accept the regime�s claim that the eight abductees still in SCNK are dead � and warned of �stern measures� (Voice of America via Epoch Times), if the regime refused. The abduction issue is one with a long and, for Japan, painful history, as shown in previous Northern Korea Reports: 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, 10/28/02, 11/18/02, 12/19/02, 5/24, 7/19, 7/27, 8/10, 10/11, 11/29, 12/6, 12/13, and 12/20. Stop the SCNK Nuclear Power Plants: Are the plants dead or aren�t they? You can make sure they don�t come back! Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants from the 1994 agreement that SCNK broke. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS ROK APPOINTS NEW AMBASSADOR TO UNITED STATES The Republic of Korea (�South Korea�) appointed Hong Seok-hyun � head of the group that owns the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper � as its new ambassador to the United States. While the president who appointed him, Roh Moo-hyun, is a notorious dove on SCNK, the hawkish opposition Grand National Party �also approved of the selection� (Washington Times). OTHER NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE REFUGEES IN CANADIAN EMBASSY FLOWN TO FREEDOM Forty-four refugees from Stalinist-controlled northern Korea who have been holed up in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing since September were flown to �an undisclosed third country� (BBC). This means they will be spared repatriation, which is what Communist China does with any SCNK refugee it can find that doesn�t reach a democratic embassy first. The Communist policy of forced repatriation � and the torture the refugees face once they are back in the Stalinists� clutches � has led hundreds of thousands of refugees to live as nonpersons in the PRC (see 5/13/02, 5/20/02, 5/28/02, 6/18/02, 7/29/02, 9/9/02, 9/16/02, 1/20/03, 7/12, 7/27, 8/2, 9/6, and 10/4 NKRs). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or a Northern Korea Report? Find it via our home page. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join (or unsubscribe or change their address) can send his/her name to [email protected]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or Stalinist-controlled northern Korea that you find to the same address. |