{"id":48614,"date":"2021-06-03T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48614"},"modified":"2021-06-03T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:34:32","slug":"two-young-children-yanggang-province-abducted-ransoms-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/two-young-children-yanggang-province-abducted-ransoms-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Two young children in Yanggang Province abducted for ransoms in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two kidnappings of young children recently took place in Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in the province reported on Tuesday that a six-year-old child was kidnapped from Gangan Kindergarten in Hyesan on May 12 and a five-year-old child was abducted from a kindergarten in Samsu County on May 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of Gangan Kindergarten, the source said a man claiming to be the child\u2019s father showed up at the school on the day of the incident. Though the child lived only with his mother, the man said he was the child\u2019s divorced father and had come because he had not seen the child for a while. Then the man took the child away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afterwards, the man demanded a ransom of RMB 5,000 (around USD 783) for the child. The mother reported the matter to the city branch of the Ministry of Social Security and the child was recovered within eight hours. The culprit reportedly escaped, however.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39552\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/pyungyang-students.jpg\" alt=\"pyungyang students school vacations\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/pyungyang-students.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/pyungyang-students-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/pyungyang-students-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/pyungyang-students-696x423.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/pyungyang-students-691x420.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students attending class in North Korea\u2019s Pyongyang Elementary School. \/ Image: Ryukyung Website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Believing the incident to be a serious matter generating social disquiet, the Ministry of Social Security is looking for the suspect based on testimony from the kindergarten\u2019s teachers, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities also arrested the kidnapper of a five-year-old child at Hyesan Station two days after the abduction following a tip from a local.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During questioning, the kidnapper told police he planned to take the child to Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, and extort money from the parents through threatening phone calls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, there is growing anxiety among locals because of these kidnapping incidents. Parents with small children are worrying that the same thing could befall their \u201cown children at any time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%96%91%ea%b0%95%eb%8f%84%ec%84%9c-%ec%9c%a0%ec%b9%98%ec%9b%90%ec%83%9d-%ec%9c%a0%ea%b4%b4%ec%82%ac%ea%b1%b4-%ec%9e%87%eb%94%b0%eb%9d%bc-%eb%b0%9c%ec%83%9d-%eb%b6%80%eb%aa%a8%eb%93%a4-%eb%b6%88\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two kidnappings of young children recently took place in Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in the province reported on Tuesday that a six-year-old child was kidnapped from Gangan Kindergarten in Hyesan on May 12 and a five-year-old child was abducted from a kindergarten in Samsu County on May 24. 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