Spokesman for C.C., DPRK Red Cross Society Urges to Send back DPRK Abductees

Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society of the DPRK released a statement Tuesday in connection with the fact that the south Korean authorities lured and abducted a group of DPRK employees in broad daylight. The statement said: The south Korean authorities, on April 7, reporting about the "group defection" of DPRK's employees of a restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province of China, claimed "they accepted the employees from a humanitarian stand by respecting their will". They are also building up public opinion to give impression that the case of "group defection" is a "substantial effect" of the implementation of "UN resolution on sanctions against the north" and a reflection of the "skepticism and aspiration of the northerners for south Korean society". Refuting it as an unprecedented group abduction committed by the gangsters of the puppet Intelligence Service, the statement clarified the following stand: We sternly denounce the group abduction of the citizens of the DPRK as a hideous crime against its dignity and social system and the life and security of its citizens. The puppet group should apologize for the hideous group abduction and immediately send all of the abductees back to the DPRK. In case the puppet group does not send them back, it will have to pay a high price for the serious consequences to be entailed by its action. -0-