domingo, maio 23, 2004

A mais desumana chantagem

A Coréia do Norte, ao contrário da Coréia do Sul, é um estado ímpar. O único cujo governo sai por aí sequestrando pessoas de outros países. O assunto não é muito divulgado por aqui, mas leia o link a seguir para saber mais.

PYONGYANG : Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has scored a major breakthrough, on his trip to North Korea.

He has won Pyongyang's agreement to allow eight relatives of Japanese kidnapped decades ago to leave the communist state.

Five of them will be reunited with their parents in Tokyo on Saturday.

There was a warm welcome for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on his second trip to Pyongyang.


Por que existem estes caras sequestrados? O trecho abaixo ilustra o que aconteceu.

The reunion offers some closure to a bizarre saga that has captivated — and outraged — the Japanese public since Kim acknowledged in his first summit with Koizumi in 2002 that North Korean agents had systematically abducted Japanese in the 1970s and 80s to train their spies in the Japanese language and culture.

O Estado com poder supremo dá nisto. Poder sobre sua vida e, no caso, sobre a vida de gente de outros países...