Seoul 10th, September : North Korea has not responded to requests from an UN working group to provide information about more than 300 cases of enforced disappearance according to a report released on Saturday.The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances submitted requests relating to 362 cases that were reported to the North between 1980 and May of this year however, there is not a response from Pyongyang in its annual report to the UN Human Rights Council.
An enforced disappearance is the case of the person being reported missing after being detained, abducted, detained, or arrested by a state-run or government agency, according to Yonhap News Agency.
“The Working Group again reiterates its deep concern over the practice of forced return of the nationals of the Democratic Republic of Korea from third-country nations,” the report read using the official name.
According Seoul’s Unification Ministry, almost 100,000 South Korean civilians were abducted by the North during the 1950-53 Korean War, while at least 3,835 South Koreans were taken after the war.
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