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Archived Magazine and Newspaper Articles: [2003] Present--September August /July /June /May (In Archives #3 ) April /March /Feb /Jan (In Archives #2 ) [2002] Dec/Nov/Oct/Sept/Aug - (In Archives #1 ) "Korean News"--NK's Official Newspaper: [2003]May-August/January - April[-2002]Feb 1997 - Dec 2002 NEW! Find out what happened to each victim. Read "How it all happened -- stories behind each of the cases" , the first detailed information on the abduction cases in the English language. A MUST READ! -- December 2002 -- "Japan's Top 10 News Stories 2002 -- No. 1: N. Korea shocks nation with spy ship, abductions and historic meeting" Mainichi Daily News /Dec 31, 2002 "Govt renews Kim Hye Gyong visit request" Daily Yomiuri On-line/Dec 31, 2002 "Remains from N. Korea a dilemma for police" Asahi.com/Dec 30, 2002 "Pyongyang neighbours hold back from US's hard line" Financial Times/Dec 30, 2002 "Terakoshi's mother wants gov't to recognize son's abduction" Kyodo News/Dec 29, 2002 "Soga believes mother still alive and waiting to meet " Kyodo News/Dec 28, 2002 "Rumor mill:Despite official denials, it's whispered that Koizumi will meet with the North Koreans while he's in Russia." Asahi.com/Dec 28, 2002 "Abductees accuse 'criminal' North Korea" The Guardian/Dec 28, 2002 "Kidnapped Japanese refuse to forgive" The Scotsman (source:AP)/Dec 28, 2002 "Japanese abductees open up, criticize North Korea for kidnapping" San Francisco Chronicle (source:AP)/Dec 28, 2002 (Also in NY Daily News (NY), Houston Chronicle (TX), The State (SC), Las Vegas Sun (NV), The Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN), The Olympian (WA), The Boston Globe (MA), The Edmonton Sun(Canada), The Charlotte Observer (NC), The Daily Camera (CO), The Globe and Mail(Canada), ABC News, The Guardian, The Straits Times(Singapore), Austin American-Statesman(TX), WSB TV(GA), WSOC TV(NC), News Journal(TX), KTVU TV(CA), Newsday(LI), The Tuscaloosa News(AL), Times Daily(AL), Sarasota Herald-Tribune(FL), The Arizona Republic (AZ)) "15 on list of Pyongyang abductees eligible for aid" The Japan Times /Dec 27, 2002 "Support group submits list of 40 possible abductees" Japan Today (source:Kyodo)/Dec 26, 2002 "Christmas note bonds Japanese woman and alleged American defector" The Charlotte Observer (source:AP)/Dec 25, 2002 (Also in Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL), Wilmington Star (NC) and The News & Observer (NC), Sioux City Journal (IO)) "New York Times readers learn of Megumi's plight" The Japan Times(source:Kyodo)/Dec 25, 2002 "Free of North Korea, Ex-G.I.'s Wife Seeks a Reunion in Japan" The New York Times/Dec 25, 2002 "Govt seeks return of all abductees" (Interview with Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to The Cabinet Secretariat on government support to families of Japanese abducted by North Korea) Daily Yomiuri On-line/Dec 25, 2002 "PM denies Russian report of abduction meeting" Mainichi Daily News/Dec 24, 2002 "Emperor Akihito expresses empathy toward abductees" The Japan Times/Dec 23, 2002 "Blue-ribbon fever sweeping nation" Daily Yomiuri On-line/Dec 23, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: North Korean Spies Steal Japanese Money, Nuclear Weapon and Missile Technology" The Weekly Post /Dec 20, 2002 "Traitor or N. Korea captive?" The News & Observer /Dec 12, 2002 "Soga wants to visit mother-in-law in U.S." Japan Today (source:Kyodo News)/Dec 19, 2002 "Yokota wants to meet granddaughter" Japan Today (source:Kyodo News)/Dec 19, 2002 "Japanese abductees announce they want to stay in Japan" San Francisco Chronicle (source:AP)/Dec 19, 2002 "Parents of 'dead' abductee plan N. Korean visit" Mainichi Daily News/Dec 19, 2002 "Abductees Take Stand Against N. Korea" The Washington Post (source:AP)/Dec 19, 2002 "Japanese abduction victims to discuss plight of families held in North Korea" The Nando Times (source:AP)/Dec 17, 2002 "Nephew: Alleged Army deserter a 'pawn'" European and Pacific Stars & Stripes /Dec 15, 2002 "Japan Abductees' Future Still in Flux" Yahoo! News (source:AP)/Dec 13, 2002 "Traitor or N. Korea captive?" The News & Observer /Dec 12, 2002 "Soga case gets Armitage's attention" Asahi.com/Dec 10, 2002 "U.S. Official, Japan Abductees' Kin Meet" The Guardian /Dec 16, 2002 "EDITORIAL: Japan-North Korea ties" Asahi.com/Dec 10, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: North Korean Leader Kim Takes Advantage of Bankruptcies of North Korean Credit Unions in Japan" The Weekly Post /Dec 9, 2002 "Dead or Alive?" iKjeld.com /Dec 9, 2002 "U.S. likely to prosecute soldier who fled Army" Washington Times /Dec 8, 2002 "US urged to pardon deserter in North Korea kidnap case" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Dec 7, 2002 "Spy ship carried drugs" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Dec 7, 2002 "Diplomatic stalemate for U.S. deserter" CNN.com/Dec 5, 2002 "Financial support for abductees approved" Mainichi Daily News/Dec 4, 2002 "Health worries for alleged U.S. Army deserter" CNN.com/Dec 3, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: Passenger Liner Smuggled $2.5 Billion from Japan to North Korea" The Weekly Post /Dec 2, 2002 "Editorial:Former Korean University Professor Tells of Bogus Money Transfers to North Korea" The Weekly Post /Dec 2, 2002 "Abductions, nukes make Japan aid to North Korea unlikely" Nando Times (source:AP) /Dec 2, 2002 (also in: The Victoria Advocate (TX)) "US Ambassador: Charles Robert Jenkins likely to face arrest if he goes to Japan" Global Security.org (source:VOA) /Dec 2, 2002 "US Army Deserter in N. Korea Could Face Arrest in Japan" Open Here! News /Dec 2, 2002 "Army sergeant who served in Korea the focus of defection debate" The Philadelphia Inquirer (PH) (source: Knight Ridder)/Dec 2, 2002 (also in:The Monterey Herald (CA), The Miami Herald (FL)) "Former abductee worried about ill American husband" European and Pacific Stars & Stripes /Dec 1, 2002 "Kidnap couple enthrals Japanese society" The Age (Australia) /Dec 2, 2002 "N. Korea-Japan talks stall over abductions" Mercury News(CA) /Dec 1, 2002 -- November 2002 -- " Former Us Soldier Charles Robert Jenkins Is Interviewed By Kyodo" Yahoo! Headlines /Nov 30, 2002 "N. Korea taunts Japanese abductee with report of ill husband" Mainichi Daily News /Nov 28, 2002 "Japan Abductee's Ill Husband Wants Her Back" Reuters-Kyodo/Nov 29, 2002 "North Korea says Japan abductee's American husband ill" Yahoo! Top Stories /Nov 29, 2002 "Relatives don't believe NC man defected to North Korea" The Herald Sun (NC) (source: AP)/Nov 30, 2002 (also in: Winston Salem Journal (NC), St. Louis Post Dispatch (MO)) "Relatives don't believe NC man defected to North Korea" The Herald Sun (NC) (source: AP)/Nov 30, 2002 "WAR DEFECTOR OR NORTH KOREAN PRISONER? Family Seeks Answers to 1965 Mystery" The Sun News (SC) (source: Knight Ridder)/Nov 30, 2002 "Mystery of the sick soldier -- How did he get to N. Korea, and can Japanese docs help?" Daily News (NY) /Nov 30, 2002 "Move eyed to bring Jenkins to Japan" Asahi.com /Nov 30, 2002 "Nephew questions Jenkins' 'guilt'" Daily Yomiuri On-line /Nov 29, 2002 "Japan demands doctor for ex-GI in N. Korea" The Washington Times /Nov 30, 2002 "Jenkins says he can't visit Japan for fear of arrest" Kyodo News /Nov 29, 2002 "Ill in N. Korea, U.S. deserter refuses chance to go to Japan" The Globe and Mail (source: AP) /Nov 30, 2002 (also in: The Tampa Tribune (FL)) "THE WORLD; Japan Granting Funds to Abductees; Bill aims to assist those kidnapped by North Korea and returned."(abstract) The Los Angeles Times/Nov 29, 2002 "Abductee's American husband faces extradition in Japan" Mainichi Daily News /Nov 27, 2002 "Kidnap row mars Japan-N Korea talks" BBC News /Nov 25, 2002 "North Korean Abduction Victim Families Speak Out" The Weekly Post /Nov 25, 2002 "Yokotas meet abductees" Asahi.com /Nov 25, 2002 "Japan Abductee Seeks Embassy Talks on U.S. Husband" Reuters News/Nov 19, 2002 "Japanese anger over North Korean kidnaps" BBC News/Nov 18, 2002 "Japan to press N. Korea on further abductions" Mainichi Daily News/Nov 18, 2002 "Japan and North Korea Spar Over Kidnap Victims' Return -- Tokyo's Refusal to Let Them Leave Stalls Talks on Normalizing Ties" The Washington Post/Nov 16, 2002 "Five trapped in the middle after second abduction" The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)/Nov 16, 2002 "Give me back my wife, US deserter tells Tokyo" The Guardian /Nov 15, 2002 "U.S. deserter wants wife to return to North Korea" Southeast Missourian (source: AP) (MO) /Nov 15, 2002 "Mag's Pyongyang interview leaves angered Soga in tears" Mainichi Daily News /Nov 14, 2002 "Husband wants Japan kidnap victim home" BBC News /Nov 14, 2002 "Gov't may send envoy to meet N. Koreans over abductees' children" Mainichi Daily News /Nov 12, 2002 "Human remains may not belong to kidnapped Japanese" The Nando News (source:AP) /Nov 12, 2002 "Former US Soldier's Mother Wants Her Son to Get Back from North Korea" The Weekly Post /Nov 11, 2002 "Japanese abductee caught in Cold War tug-of-love" CNN.com/Nov 7, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: North Korean Leader's New Strategy for Harassing Japan Revealed" The Weekly Post /Nov 4, 2002 "GI saw no hint that platoon leader now living in N. Korea wanted out" European and Pacific Stars & Stripes/Nov 3, 2002 -- October 2002 -- "Abduction drama captures Japan's attention"(transcript) ABC News (Australia) /Oct 29, 2002 "Grandparents Cautious About Seeing Their Grandchild in North Korea" The Weekly Post /Oct 28, 2002 "Homecoming"(abstract) U.S. News and World Report/Oct 28, 2002 "Families of N. Korea abductees turn to UN for help" Mainichi Daily News/Oct 28, 2002 "Heartbreak over Japan's missing" BBC News/Oct 28, 2002 "Japan fails to return five seized by N Korea" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Oct 28, 2002 "DOD: Amnesty not likely for GI in North Korea" European and Pacific Stars & Stripes/Oct 27, 2002 "Spy school nurtured love of hostage for traitor" The Age (Australia) /Oct 26, 2002 "Forgotten man emerges into the light" The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) /Oct 26, 2002 "Jenkins' status complicates return" Asahi.com /Oct 25, 2002 "Kidnap victim's child pleads for visit " BBC News /Oct 25, 2002 "Children key to Japan abductees' fate" CNN.com/Oct 25, 2002 "Parents of abductee furious over 'cruel' interview" Mainichi Daily News /Oct 26, 2002 "Japan insists kidnap victims will stay" BBC News /Oct 24, 2002 "Abducted Japanese return home" The Daily Beacon (source:AP) (TN)/Oct 25, 2002 "Hard return from Korea for Japanese abductees" Christian Science Monitor/Oct 25, 2002 "Return of Abductees Is Blocked by Japan - Tokyo Demands N. Korea Hand Over Relatives" The Washington Post/Oct 25, 2002 "Families of kidnapped plead for freedom" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Oct 24, 2002 "Daughter of 'dead' abduction victim confirmed by DNA" Mainichi Daily News /Oct 24, 2002 "North Korea: Kim's Biggest Gamble" Business Week On-line /Oct 23, 2002 "What happened to GI patrolling DMZ in '65?" European and Pacific Stars & Stripes /Oct 21, 2002 "Joy over homecoming marred by questions on abductees' future" The News Tribune (source:AP) (MO) /Oct 21, 2002 "Abductees May Return to Japan Permanently" The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea) /Oct 21, 2002 "Blackmail fears over reunion for kidnap victims" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Oct 18, 2002 "Japanese abductees reunited with families" CNN.com/Oct 16, 2002 "Tears and Hugs as 5 Abducted Japanese Go Home to Visit"(abstract) The New York Times/Oct 16, 2002 "Kidnapped Japanese silent on abductions" BBC News /Oct 16, 2002 "Abductee Furlough Begins" Salt Lake Tribune (UT) (source: KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS) /Oct 16, 2002 "Japanese kidnapped by North Koreans return home in tears" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Oct 16, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: Families of Abducted Japanese Victims Claim War" The Weekly Post /Oct 14, 2002 "Editorial:Ignorance of Abduction by Politicians" The Weekly Post /Oct 14, 2002 "N Korea abductees to visit Japan" BBC News /Oct 9, 2002 "Five Japanese Abductees to Visit Hometowns" The Chosun Ilbo /Oct 14, 2002 "U.S. urges access to GIs who defected to North Korea in '60s" European and Pacific Stars & Stripes/Oct 11, 2002 "An Abducted Daughter's Legacy? Japanese Family Learns of Possible Grandchild in N. Korea" The Washington Post /Oct 4, 2002 "Dead from heart disease at 27 - Rumiko's strange fate" Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) /Oct 4, 2002 "North Korea's spy kidnap victims 'washed away' after freak deaths" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Oct 3, 2002 "Families' anger over N. Korean abductions" CNN.com /Oct 3, 2002 "Missing Pieces of Japanese Lives -- Five of 13 Abducted Meet With Tokyo Delegation; Families of Others Have Doubts" The Washington Post /Oct 3, 2002 "N. Korea's Kidnapping Story Raises Suspicions" The Salt Lake City Tribune (source: AP) /Oct 3, 2002 "Paying for The past" The Guardian/Oct 3, 2002 "Families refute Pyongyang death report as 'laughable lies'" Mainichi Daily News /Oct 2, 2002 "Five abduction survivors reluctant to leave N. Korea" Mainichi Daily News /Oct 2, 2002 "NK Reveals Japanese Abductees Fate" Chosun Ilbo (South Korea) /Oct 2, 2002 -- September 2002 -- "Disappeared"(abstract) U.S. News and World Report/Sept 30, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: Japan's Premier Koizumi Unconsciously Triggers Potential Fall of North Korean Leader" The Weekly Post /Sept 30, 2002 "Japan's PM meets families of kidnapped" BBC News /Sept 27, 2002 "Woman was kidnapped to be bride" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Sept 26, 2002 "After Koizumi's Pyongyang Visit (by Robert Dujarric)" The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)/Sept 26, 2002 "Kim Il Song Ordered Kidnapping: Tokyo Shinbun" The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)/Sept 26, 2002 "NK Promises to Return Remains of Japanese Abductees" The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)/Sept 25, 2002 "Accounted for, at Last " Time Magazine/Sept 24, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special 1: What Is Behind Death of Eight Japanese Citizens Abducted by North Korean Spies?" The Weekly Post /Sept 23, 2002 "Editorial 2:Victims' Families Complain" "Korea kidnapping victims home soon" The Age (Australia)/Sept 19, 2002 "Hollow homecoming for Japanese stolen by Pyongyang" Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)/Sept 19, 2002 "Analysis: Koizumi troubled by kidnappings" UPI News/Sept 19, 2002 "Yes, We Abducted Your Citizens, North Korean Leader Tells Japan" CNS News /Sept 18, 2002 "Anger in Japan over Korea kidnaps" BBC News /Sept 18, 2002 "Questions that haunt families of the missing" The Telegraph /Sept 18, 2002 "North Korea apologises to Japan for bizarre tale of kidnap and intrigue" The Guardian /Sept 18, 2002 "N Korea admits to Japanese kidnappings" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Sept 18, 2002 "Japanese, North Korean Leaders Hold First Ever Talks" CNS News /Sept 17, 2002 "N. Korea Apologizes for Abduction of Japanese Citizens" The Palestine Chronicle (source:voa)/Sept 17, 2002 "Analysis: Pyongyang's U-turn on abductions" (with links to useful resources) BBC News/Sept 17, 2002 "A 13-year-old Japanese girl disappeared in 1977. Did North Korea snatch her?" The Guardian /Sept 17, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special : What Can Be Accomplished During Prime Minister Koizumi's Visit to North Korea?" The Weekly Post /Sept 16, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special : Japan's Prime Minister Will Visit North Korea" The Weekly Post /Sept 9, 2002 -- August 2002 and before-- "Mystery Ship Salvage May Delay Japan-N Korea Talks " This Day On-Line (Nigeria) /June 28, 2002 "The Weekly Post Special: Diplomacy of Japanese Government with North Korea Is Failing" The Weekly Post /May 20, 2002 "North Korea resumes search for missing Japanese" The Guardian /May 2, 2002 "Reasons for North Korea To Abduct Japanese Women" The Weekly Post /May 25, 2002 "N Korea pressed on 'kidnapped' Japanese" BBC News /March 23, 2002 "Tokyo protest at abductions by N Koreans" The Telegraph (U.K.) /March 20, 2002 "Brainwashed au pair abducted by spy team" The Daily Telegraph (UK) /Mar 16, 2002 "Families of missing oppose rice aid to N Korea" Japan Today (source: Kyodo) /Nov 13, 2001 "Japan Confirms Student Abduction by NK" The Chosun Ilbo (S.Korea) /March 12, 2002 "North Korean Kidnapper Refuses To Talk After Being Given Amnesty" The Weekly Post /Feb 21, 2000 World Articles: [2003] Oct /Sept Aug /Jul /Jun /May (in Archives #3) Apr /Mar /Feb /Jan (in Archives #2) [2002] Dec /Nov /Oct /Sept /Aug - (in Archives #1) KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK's "Korean News" Archive (Feb 1997 - Dec 2002): (DPRK = Democratic People's Republic of Korea a.k.a. North Korea) "Japan warned not to follow U.S. policy" Dec 18, 2002 "KCNA urges Japan to behave itself" Dec 17, 2002 "Japan urged to return home-visiting Japanese" Dec 10, 2002 "Japanese right-wing reactionaries' anti-DPRK remarks under fire" Nov 27, 2002 "Spokesman for DPRK FM warns Japan against indefinite postponement of security talks" Nov 14, 2002 "Japan's insincere approach toward DPRK-Japan talks under fire" Nov 11, 2002 "KCNA urges Japan to remain true to DPRK-Japan declaration" Nov 8, 2002 "Japan's fuss about 'suspected kidnapping' condemned" Dec 17, 2001 "Japan accused of raising again issue of 'suspected kidnapping'" Dec 8, 2001 "KCNA dismisses Japan's talk about 'charge of abduction'" Sept 15, 2001 "KCNA assails Japan for peddling 'abduction' issue" Aug 6, 2001 "Japan accused of peddling 'abduction" issue'" Aug 1, 2001 "Japan's fuss about 'kidnapping' refuted" May 21, 2000 "Japan urged to draw lesson from girl kidnapping case" Mar 6, 2000 "KCNA on outstanding issues between DPRK and Japan" Feb 14, 2000 "Sankei Shimbun assailed for its false propaganda" Feb 12, 2000 "Japan urged to fulfil its responsibility" Dec 5, 1999 "Talks between delegations of WPK and Japanese political parties" Dec 2, 1999 "Japan urged to drop hostile policy toward DPRK" Aug 28, 1999 "U.S. annual report on terrorism" May 14, 1999 "3rd-rate farce =KCNA commentary=" Oct 19, 1998 "Japan's rude act: shame in 20th century =KCNA commentary=" Oct 17, 1998 "Why does U.S. please Japan's whim = KCNA commentary =" Oct 9, 1998 "Japan urged to stop outcries over 'suspected kidnapping'" June 25, 1998 "Spokeswoman for Korean Women's Society on anti-DPRK smear campaign" June 21, 1998 "Japanese reactionaries urged to stop anti-DPRK campaign" June 6, 1998 "Historic truth cannot be concealed = KCNA commentary =" May 16, 1998 "Trick does not work any longer" May 9, 1998 "Japan hit for its fiction of 'suspected abduction'" June 7, 1998 "Despicable propaganda" Apr 11, 1998 "Improvement of DPRK-Japan relations depends on Japan's stand and attitude" Sept 5, 1997 "Society for human rights studies on anti-DPRK campaign in Japan" June 17, 1997 "Foreign Ministry spokesman on anti-DPRK campaign in Japan" Apr 28, 1997 "Japan's anti-DPRK campaign under fire" June 13, 1997 "Statement of KCNA spokesman" June 9, 1997 "Japan cannot avoid postwar settlement" June 7, 1997 "Japanese papers used by S. Korea in anti-DPRK campaign" Feb 11, 1997 Korean News archives 1(Feb 1997 - Dec 2002) Korean News archives 2(Jan 2003- April 2003) Korean News archives 3(May 2003 - August 2003) Latest Korean News articles (September 2003 - Present)

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