South Korea on Friday unveiled a monument on a southwestern island in hopes of the safe return of five South Koreans abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, in the latest move to raise public awareness of the abductee issue.
The unification ministry said Monday it will set up two monuments in hopes of the repatriation of five South Koreans who were abducted by North Korea on two southwestern islands in the 1970s.
Kim Yung-ho, South Korea s point man on North Korea, and Julie Turner, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights, plan to make a visit next month to areas where then South Korean teens had been abducted by the North in the 1970s, a Seoul official said Friday.
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