[imText1]Right after the Korean War, from the end of June to September 1950, 80,000 intellectuals including members of the National Assembly, judges and lawyers and administrators had been abducted by North Korea.
Around 100,000 abductees had been taken to North Korea without knowing the reasons for it during the wartime period. Their families have still suffered from losing their fathers and sons for 56 years. Is that their harsh fait?
However, what was worse is that the South Korea government does not have the official data about the wartime abductees. The worst thing is that it does not have even the exact statistics about when and how many people had been abducted.
On the 13th, the 6.25 War Abductees’ Family Association(Representative: Lee MI Il), the Data Center of Korean War Abduction and professor Kim Myung Ho of Business Management department of Kanglung University made public of the positive analysis of ‘the Korewan Wartime Abductees’ Reality’.
The analytical report showed that for three months right after the Korean War, intellectuals over the countries had been abducted by North Korea on purpose. It says that the abduction was ordered and elaborately schemed by Kim Il Sung.
The 40 page report shows that the reality, incidence background and result of the wartime abduction.
1. How many people had been abducted by North Korea during the Korean War period?
‘The 6.25 Wartime Abductees’ Reality’ are base on 5 documents: 『Seoul Abductees List』(2.438) issued by the Bureau of Statistics under the Bureau of Public Information 『6.25 War Abductees List』(82,959) by the government, 『6.25 War Abductees List』found in the remains of the late Sin Ik Hee (2.316), 『the Displaced People List』(7,034) by the Korea National Red Cross in 1956, 『Abductees List』(17,940) by the Security Policy under the Department of the Interior.
For three months, the authors of the report took out the overlapped people registered on the lists, producing the exact number of the abductees, 96,013.
The age range was that teenage was 20,785(21.6%), the twenties was 51,436(53.6%) and the thirds was 14,773(15.4%). It shows that the abductees ranged usually from teenage to the twenties. In addition, the report found that 338 infants and children under 10 and the old over 60 had been abducted. It seems that infants were taken with their mothers.
|
Seoul |
Gyeonggi |
Kangwon |
Chungcheong |
Gyeongsang |
Jeonla |
Total |
Male |
21,760 |
18,024 |
11,350 |
23,303 |
9,387 |
10,114 |
93,938 |
Female |
575 |
246 |
25 |
361 |
116 |
519 |
1,842 |
Omission |
13 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
220 |
233 |
Total |
22,348 |
18,270 |
11,375 |
23,664 |
9,503 |
10,853 |
96,013 |