Dear Secretary-General, President of
the UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights
We are parents of the 12 girls who
had been separated overnight by the tremendous atrocities of the south Korean
authorities who allured and kidnapped them by mobilizing the gangsters of the
“National Intelligence Service”.
In April 2016, the south Korean
authorities committed such crime against humanity as alluring and kidnapping in
broad daylight and taking to south Korea our daughters namely, Ri Un Gyong, Han
Haeng Bok, Ri Son Mi, Ri Ji Ye, Ri Bom, Kim Hye Song, Ryu Song Yong, Jon Ok
Hwang, Ji Jong Hwa, Pak Ok Byol, Kim Sol Gyong and So Kyong A, who were working
as employees of a restaurant in Ninbo, Zhejiang Province of China.
It is nearly one year after we were
separated with our beloved daughters. But we are spending every day in bitter
tears with uneasiness and worry about our off-springs without knowing whether
they are still alive or not.
Even on the New Year’s Day when all
people greet with joy and hope, we feel grief and have to shed bitter tears
thinking of our daughters. We can find no words that can express our feelings.
Now our hearts are full of ashes and
our tears got dry because of our anxiety and worry about our daughters taken to
south Korea.
We would like to remind you that we
had already sent letters to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and
President of the UN Human Rights Council on two occasions, namely on April and
November 2016, requesting to make efforts to demand the offender south Korean
authorities to send back the abductees to their parents immediately when the
tremendous crime against humanity was occurred, and asked about the result
several times.
Some time ago, we received a reply
from the High Commissioner that runs through with pretexts, which crumbled even
the faint hope of the families of the 12 girls.
Therefore, our daughters are still in
the hell-like south Korea and the UN mechanism is not making any thorough
investigation of the mean and shuddering immoral atrocities of the south Korean
authorities.
We are very much disappointed at the
fact that the bitter exclamation and appeal of the parents writhing after
separation with their daughters are ignored.
However, we send this letter again
with a hope that our daughters would come back to their parents one day if the
UN human rights organizations make efforts, proceeding from the mission of the
United Nations enshrining justice, truth, and promotion and protection of human
rights as their lifeline.
As we have made clear on several
occasions, it is undeniable stark fact that there is no reason for our
daughters to abandon their hometowns as well as their beloved parents, brothers
and sisters, and go to south Korea, as they fully developed their talents,
learning to their hearts’ content in the bosom of the grateful homeland, the
DPRK with nothing to envy in the world.
Nevertheless, the south Korean
authorities are turning black into white, talking about the so-called “group
defection from the north”, “reflection of yearning” and the like. They are
hell-bent on “submission” operation, committing all sorts of unimaginable evil
crimes against our daughters.
We, as their parents, have already
demanded the south Korean authorities again and again to allow us to meet with
our daughters, and sent our credentials in the name of parents to the south
Korean civil societies requesting them to confirm instead of us whether the
abductees were alive or not.
However, the south Korean authorities
have mercilessly trampled down and ignored this most elementary demand and, as
a result, we, the parents, do not know the whereabouts of our beloved daughters
until today.
Forcing separation between parents
and off-springs, they are committing senseless acts against morality without
hesitation. Aren’t they a group of barbarians in human shape?
Now the families of the 12 girls are
suffering from unimaginable mental and physical pains and damages due to the
despicable allurement and abduction of the south Korean authorities. It is
proved by the following facts.
Kim Hwa Song, mother of Jon Ok Hyang,
caught an incurable disease after mental shock caused by the incident and
underwent major surgical operation. Ji Chun Ae, mother of Ri Ji Ye, has been
staying in hospital for several months because of heart disease. And in
November last year, Ri Ji Ye’s father Ri Kyong Su died of shock at having lost
his daughter.
Who on earth are forcing such
heart-rending sorrow and suffering on us, the parents, who want to put forward
our good children before the country?
They are none other than the south
Korean authorities.
If the south Korean authorities had
not allured, kidnapped and taken our daughters en masse to south Korea, we
would not have undergone such pains, writhing and sufferings.
Now in south Korea it is circulated
that some of our daughters have been killed by maltreatment and torture of the
gangsters of the “National Intelligence Service” beyond human imagination.
We are greatly surprised and
indignant at it. And if it is true, we will never pardon those human butchers
who killed our daughters mercilessly.
We make clear in the name of the
families of the 12 girls that the group allurement and abduction of our
daughters is a product of the south Korean authorities’ policy of confrontation
with fellow countrymen and an immoral crime against human rights which grossly
violated relevant international laws.
Even now we seem to hear the bitter
outcry of our daughters calling for sending them back to their parents,
brothers and sisters at an early date as they can’t endure the cruel and
inhumane maltreatment of the gangsters of the “National Intelligence Service” in
south Korea without kith and kin.
Not content with the pains the fellow
countrymen are suffering for more than half a century because of the national
division and territorial split by foreign powers, the south Korean authorities
have left an wound to be unhealed forever in the hearts of the fellow
countrymen. They are a vicious group of devils against reunification.
The atrocities of the south Korean
authorities which will even put the animals in the shade deserve denunciation
and due punishment of not only the Korean nation and the international
community but also all other humanity valuing justice.
We believe that our daughters taken
to south Korea are still waiting for help while resolutely fighting against the
pressure, appeasement and “submission” operation of the brutal criminals.
We are of the view that the UN
organizations should play their due role in enabling our daughters to come back
to the motherland which brought them up and to their parents as early as
possible.
As we wrote in the previous letters,
we know that it is a mission and duty of the UN human rights organizations to
thoroughly investigate the nefarious immoral crimes of the south Korean
authorities and bring the offenders to justice and promote early reunion of
parents and their children.
We will never stop fighting until the
day when we meet our beloved daughters and when our daughters come back to the
motherland.
We appeal to the UN organizations
once again to keep, in conformity with their mission, questioning the immoral crimes
of the south Korean authorities and demanding the south Korean authorities
unconditional and immediate repatriation as we requested, so that the abductees
can return to their motherland and to their families as early as possible.
We, the parents of the 12 abductees,
believe that the UN organization would not turn aside our earnest appeal.
With best regards,
Families of the 12 girls allured and
kidnapped by the south Korean authorities
Pyongyang
February 25, Juche 106(2017)
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