ROK Vows to Bring Back Abductees from North Korea
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t paying off ransoms only encourage more kidnappings?:
The South Korean government said Thursday it will work to bring back South Korean prisoners of war and abduction victims from North Korea even if it means paying off the communist state, but said there will be no immediate changes to its North Korea policy.
“The government has a strong determination to resolve the issue of South Korean POWs and abductees even if it will have to pay costs, such as providing economic aid to North Korea,” Vice Unification Minister Shin Un-sang told a regular press briefing.
The remarks came one day after blood samples from Kim Hye-gyeong, the daughter of a Japanese citizen abducted to the North, arrived here for tests that could verify Tokyo’s claims that the daughter’s father may be a South Korean abducted by the communist state.
