While almost 100 local governments in Japan give subsidies to North Korean schools in their areas, these schools, in turn, teach anti-Japan curriculums.
Reversing his dynasty's policy on reunification, Kim Jong Un declared, "We are neither brethren nor comrades, but two belligerent countries at war."
On January 24, hundreds flocked to Yoido Gospel Church in Seoul to meet "Pastor Kim," the man behind the award-winning documentary Beyond Utopia. The documentary chronicles...
A former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 2016, PPP lawmaker Tae Young-ho has committed to accounting for the North's abductions victims.
While "Destiny" is a fascinating account of the "Yodogo exiles," who traveled to North Korea on a hijacked plane in 1970, it fails to condemn their...
Rescuing the abduction victims is a race against time. A renowned expert on Japan-Korean relations explains the feasibility of three ways they could be saved.
The memoir documents the political life of Shinzo Abe, the most consequential Japanese statesman of the twenty-first century and shares new insights.
Japanese abductees Megumi Yokota and Yaeko Taguchi are still alive, and Japan should keep pushing for direct talks, says former North Korean agent Kim Hyon-hui.
This 2nd prize-winning essay asks us to imagine the families of abductees, grieving the undead, knowing your loved one is alive and just across the sea,...
The only way to relieve the hardships of the North Korean people and develop the country is to abandon dictatorship, release all of the abductees, and...
The death of Shigeru Yokota in June was a reminder of the atrocities perpetrated by North Korea under its kidnapping program in the 1970s...
Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea, has passed away. I have been fighting together with him since...
