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Date : September 9, 2015
U.N. seeks inspection of North Korea for forced disappearances
   http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/09/05/UN-seeks-inspection- [970]
UN found that 20 hundred thousand people around the world have been forcefully disappeared by North Korea.

On December 2010, by its 65th General Assembly, UN decided to declare 30 August the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. 
The term Forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction by a national institution, or a self-described authority group. In North Korea, forced disappearances are characterized by detention without contact or explanation to the families of the detainee. 
The United Nations has recently sent a request to North Korea to let it investigate reports of forced disappearances and abductees in the country, but Pyongyang is highly unlikely to respond.  
A UN report released last year found that enforced disappearances are carried out systematically and on a massive scale in North Korea. Foreign citizens have also disappeared after willfully travelling to North Korea or after being abducted abroad.

[Source: United Press International]


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