On
Saturday July 30, activists from KFA Ireland were present around
Belfast City Hall from 15.30 until approximately 17.00. Activists handed
out flyers to the people of Belfast to inform about the unlawful
abduction of the twelve DPRK citizens from China. Several people who
stopped by to talk to the activists about the abduction, and many where
shocked to hear about the gangster style kidnapping carried out by south
Korea’s National Intelligence Service.
Also
present outside the City Hall were a group of Christian “missionaries”.
Unfortunately a few by-passers mistook the KFA activists for the
Christians and therefor didn’t want to grab a flyer, but when activists
mentioned that our flyers wasn’t of religious content, they were happy
to have one.
Several
positive comments and support from by-passers where mentioned. One man
for example shook the hand with one activist and said that the work
carried out by us was good and that it deserves all respect.
Due to the success of the picket, the KFA activists decided to hold more activities in Belfast.
See flyer
“In
April south Korea abducted twelve citizens of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (DPRK) that worked in a Korean restaurant in China.
The south Korean regime claimed that it was a “mass defection” while it
in reality was a mass abduction. Prior to the abduction the restaurant
workers were instructed by one of their managers (who had stolen more
than 1.2 million Chinese Yuan (€162,000) from the restaurant), together
with south Korean National Intelligence Service that they were going to
the airport to go and visit another restaurant. When they were on the
plane they were told that they were going to Seoul and the twelve wanted
to return, but their kidnappers wouldn’t let them.
DPRK
have demanded that the south Korean authorities release their citizens,
but the South Korea authorities haven’t taken any measures but to
employ heinous methods such as appeasement, deception, threat and
blackmail as they are kept in solitary confinement, denied any contact
with the outside, while recklessly shutting the door on demands of
information openness and personal conversation with representatives from
social organizations in south Korea, as well as their families in the
DPRK. This is a gross violation of the human rights that is clearly
stated in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. One of the
DPRK-workers, Kyungah Suh, who was the youngest of the twelve, is
confirmed dead after hunger striking. This happened under the
responsibility of the south Korean authorities.
How
can the Western governments consider a state that year after year
violate the human rights, as a democracy? South Korea has exploited
slave labourer as late as the 1980s which consisted of disabled,
orphans, homeless and political opponents. These people who became
slaves were forced to work for companies that exported goods to Europe
and the US. Still today the slaves haven’t received any compensation,
something that they are entitled to as it happened in cooperation
between the south Korean regime and its capitalists. It is first during
recent years that scandals were people have been kept as slaves has been
revealed in south Korea. The international community never criticizes
the south Korean government over their continuous violations of human
rights. At the same time the UN imposes the harshest sanctions ever in
the history of the UN, on the DPRK when the DPRK in accordance to
international right launches a satellite into outer space. This is not
the first time either as south Korea’s National Intelligence Service has
abducted citizens of the DPRK, and it won’t be the last time either.
As
Kyungah Suh died during hunger strike, we can’t do much but to fear for
the lives and well-being of the other abductees. The south Korean
authorities already have blood on their hands. How many more innocent
lives are they prepared to take? We demand that the South Korean
authorities unconditionally let the other eleven DPRK citizens free.”
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