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Escaping North Korea's prison state. (Cover Story: Korea).
Japanese citizens kidnapped decades ago have returned from Communist Korea. Their return raises again the issue of American POWs abandoned after the Korean War.
Kaoru Hasuike and Yukiko Okudo were enjoying a romantic stroll on the beach near Niigata on Japan's northern coast. The year was 1978. Suddenly, four men attacked them, pushed them into bags, and loaded them onto a boat. When they were off-loaded the couple found themselves in Communist North Korea, which was to be their prison for the next 24 years. The same year, 1978, another young Japanese couple, Yasushi Chi mura and Fukie Hamamoto, were also kidnapped as they left a coastal restaurant. They also ...
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