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Date : February 2, 2016
UN, requested to North Korea information about its five missing citizens
   http:// http://www.voakorea.com/content/article/3168520.html [1503]
UN requested to North Korea information about five missing citizens

UN Human Rights Council requested to North Korea information about five missing North Korean citizens, whose whereabouts are currently unknown after they were arrested. UN Human Rights Councils Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances recently published a report, saying that after these five citizens were arrested between 2005 and 2011, they are currently missing.

According to the report, Seung-gil Kim was arrested in North Hamgyong Province in 2005, and since 2006, his whereabouts have been unknown. Young-Hee Ho was arrested by North Korean state security departments agents in 2011. Eun-sil Kim was witnessed the last time in South Pyongan Province in 2009 and has been missing. The report also included the case of 18-year-old boy and girl, who were arrested by state security department agents in 2011.

Although North Korea provided information about 57 unsolved cases last year, the report claims that the information is not enough to solve them. In addition to its request to North Korea, it also asked Chinese government to provide information about 9 North Koreans, who were arrested by Chinese government and were repatriated. 

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, established in 1980, accepts missing cases from missing peoples family members or private organizations, evaluates them, and requests to suspect states results of investigation. 

<Source: Voice of America> 

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