North Korean Abductions
North Korean abductions may refer to: *North Korean abductions of South Koreans * North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens * Doina Bumbea, a Romanian abductee in North Korea * Anocha Panjoy, a Thailandese abductee in North Korea See also *List of foreign nationals detained in North Korea This is a list of foreign nationals who have been detained in North Korea. Excluded from the list are any persons who were detained while on active military duty and held as prisoners of war or military defectors. Also excluded are people abduc ...

North Korean Abductions Of South Koreans
An estimated 84,532 South Koreans were taken to North Korea during the Korean War. In addition, South Korean statistics claim that, since the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953, about 3,800 people have been abducted by North Korea (the vast majority in the late 1970s), 489 of whom were still being held in 2006. Terminology South Korean abductees by North Korea are categorized into two groups, wartime abductees and post-war abductees. Wartime abductees Koreans from the south who were kidnapped to the north against their wishes during the 1950–53 Korean War and died there or are still being detained in North Korea are called wartime abductees or Korean War abductees. Most of them were already educated or skilled, such as politicians, government officials, scholars, educators, doctors, judicial officials, journalists, or businessmen. According to testimonies by remaining family members, most abductions were carried out by North Korean soldiers who had specific names and identificati ...
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North Korean Abductions Of Japanese Citizens
Abductions of Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the North Korean government took place during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983. Although only 17 Japanese (eight men and nine women) are officially recognized by the Japanese government as having been abducted, there may have been hundreds of others. The North Korean government has officially admitted to abducting 13 Japanese citizens. There are testimonies that many non-Japanese citizens, including eight citizens from European countries and one from the Middle East, have been abducted by North Korea. Background In the 1970s, a number of Japanese citizens disappeared from coastal areas in Japan. The people who had disappeared were average Japanese people who were opportunistically abducted by operatives lying in wait. Although North Korean agents were suspected, the opinion that North Korea had nothing to do with the disappearances was widely held. Most of the missing were in their 20s; the youngest, Megumi Yokota, w ...
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Doina Bumbea
Doina Bumbea ( ko, 도이나 붐베아; 25 January 1950 – January 1997) was a Romanian painter who was abducted to North Korea in 1978. Born in Bucharest, Bumbea left Romania in 1970 and went to Italy, where she studied fine arts and became a painter. There, she would be contacted by a certain individual who promised her a job as gallery curator in Japan if she gave an art exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea. Bumbea accepted and was taken there, but she would not be allowed to leave the country. It has been reported that Bumbea was kidnapped along with other foreign women to obtain wives for American defectors in North Korea and prevent them from marrying ethnic Koreans and having mixed children with them. Thus, Bumbea was forcibly married to James Joseph Dresnok, with whom she had two sons. Bumbea died in 1997 of lung cancer in Pyongyang. Later, her brother Gabriel founded an NGO in her honor and tried to contact his nephews in North Korea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs o ...
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Anocha Panjoy
Anocha Panjoy ( th, อโนชา ปันจ้อย; ; born July 12, 1955) is a Thai national who was abducted by North Korean agents from Macau on 21 May 1978. Her case only became known after the release of the American Charles Robert Jenkins and his Japanese family in 2004. Early life and abduction Panjoy was born in the village of Ban Nong Sae in Huai Sai, San Kamphaeng District, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. Her father, Som Panjoy, was a Korean War veteran. Panjoy's mother died while she was a child. Her father died three months before the family became aware of what had happened to her. After graduating from high-school, Panjoy moved to Bangkok, and then to Macau where she worked as a massage therapist in a local hotel. On 21 May 1978, she left her apartment telling her friends she was going to a local beauty parlour. According to Charles Robert Jenkins, whose book (''The Reluctant Communist'') tells of the abduction as told to him by Panjoy. Panjoy had agre ...
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