ISRIAの記事 北朝鮮に拉致された三人のフランス人女性
ISRIAに、「フィガロ」の記事をさらに紹介した記事が出ていました。
電脳補完録氏の情報と別個に、直接ＩＳＲＩＡの関係者（読者？）と思われる人物より調査会に紹介がありました。
フランスは人権の国（実態はともかくとして）を標榜しているだけに、チベット問題や北朝鮮問題にも大きな関心を持っていることがうかがえます。ただ、残念なことは「三人のフランス人女性」とは一体だれなのか、まだ判明していないことです。フランス側で、当時の失踪者を丹念に調べていけばわかるかもしれないのですが。
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French citizens abducted by North Korea years ago
At least three French women have been abducted and held hostage by North Korea for decades, will Sarkozy act?
French daily Le Figaro published a long article related to the adbuction of three French women (1) in late 1970s by North Korea. The purpose of such an illegal activity had been to teach foreign languages to North Korean intelligence operatives. That case has been heard for a very long time since a Lebanese source (2) which had been kidnapped too and a North Korean operative, Kim Hyon-hi, responsible for the bombing of a South Korean civilian aircraft (November 1987) talked about meeting with (or hearing about) French women (3) at the "Residency of the Invitees" where foreign abducted people were (and might still be) held hostage.
Japan conditions a normalization of its relations with North Korea by a release of all the Japanese (and foreigners) who had been abducted and by a complete disclosure of these illegal activities. A number of comments ask the same question: Will President Sarkozy of France deploy as much energy as in Betancourt's case (a Franco-Colombian Senator held hostage by the FARC for 6 years)? "Such a case of abduction of French people by North Korean intelligence has been known for years, why the French government seems so unwilling to take over the issue?" asks a source. Japan hopes that this abduction scandal will force France to get involved with North Korea-related issues, especially on abduction cases.
Read the interesting report by NARKN titled North Korean Abduction Victims Worldwide (August 2006) in which one can read the following:
(1) With regard to the French abductees, there is another substantial testimony by the aforementioned Korean abductee Ms. Choi Un-hee. She testified that, “A North Korean agent was sent to France who approached his female targets as a heir of a wealthy oriental family and lured them with lavish gifts. The French abductee succumbed to her vanity, gave in to his enticement and agreed to marry the North Korean agent. The North Korean agent proposed to go on a honeymoon and took her sightseeing in China before reaching North Korea. On reaching Pyongyang airport, the agent disappeared as another North Korean agent stepped forward to take charge of the French abductee. The French abductee pleaded to the new agent to look for her fiancé, but the new agent only replied that there was no such person in the country before incarcerating her in a ‘guest house’ and instigating a brainwash.”* Ms. Choi Un-hee revealed this information to NARKN as information she obtained from a male hairdresser who only worked routinely in guesthouses.
Read the U.S. Congressional Testimony by Prof. Yoichi Shimada titled On Abduction of Foreign Citizens by North Korea (pdf, April 27, 2006) in which one can read the following:
(2) The Lebanese women, after having managed to escape, testified that they had been sent to a North Korean spy camp and given indoctrination lectures together with physical training, including Judo, Taekwondo, Karate, and eavesdropping exercises, among others. They recalled there had been 28 young female trainees in the camp, including three French, three Italians, two Hollanders, and other Western European and Middle Eastern looking women (Lebanese newspaper, El Nahar, November 9, 1979).
(3) The renowned South Korean actress Choi Un-hee, who was abducted from Hong Kong in January 1978 and managed to escape in 1986, testified that in North Korea she had once exchanged brief words with a Jordanian woman. Ms. Choi Un-hee also had heard about a French abductee lured by a “good-looking North Korean man.” North Korean ex-agent Kim Hyon-hee told a similar story in her memoirs.
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