The Invitation-Only Zone The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project by Robert S Boynton | 3.3 MB
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Title: The Invitation-Only Zone
Author: Robert S. Boynton
Year: 2016
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Throughout the late 1970's and early 80's, dozens-perhaps hundreds-of Japanese citizens were kidnapped by North Korean commandos from coastal Japanese towns and cities. The intent may have been to brainwash the abductees with the regime's ideology, and train them to spy on the state's behalf. But when the project faltered, the abductees were made to teach North Korean spies how to pass as Japanese in order to infiltrate South Korea and other countries. For a quarter century, the abductees lived in a series of guarded communities on the outskirts of Pyongyang, known as "Invitation Only Zones"-the fiction being that these were not prisons, but exclusive areas into which one needed to be invited.
For years, the Japanese and North Korean authorities brushed off these disappearances, but in 2002 Kim Jong Il admitted to kidnapping thirteen citizens, and returned five of them (the other eight, he said, had died). From the moment he first saw a photograph of the...
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Throughout the late 1970's and early 80's, dozens-perhaps hundreds-of Japanese citizens were kidnapped by North Korean commandos from coastal Japanese towns and cities. The intent may have been to brainwash the abductees with the regime's ideology, and train them to spy on the state's behalf. But when the project faltered, the abductees were made to teach North Korean spies how to pass as Japanese in order to infiltrate South Korea and other countries. For a quarter century, the abductees lived in a series of guarded communities on the outskirts of Pyongyang, known as "Invitation Only Zones"-the fiction being that these were not prisons, but exclusive areas into which one needed to be invited.
For years, the Japanese and North Korean authorities brushed off these disappearances, but in 2002 Kim Jong Il admitted to kidnapping thirteen citizens, and returned five of them (the other eight, he said, had died). From the moment he first saw a photograph of the...
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