CPRK Spokesman Demands S. Korean Regime Send Back DPRK Abductees

Pyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) in a statement on Thursday warned that if the south Korean puppet regime fails to send back group citizens of the DPRK allured and abducted by the Intelligence Service under its manipulation early in April, the DPRK will take a merciless counteraction. The statement said: No sooner had the incident occurred than the DPRK vehemently censured the brutal act of the puppet regime and strongly urged it to unconditionally send back the abductees without delay, severely punish or send those involved in the abducting operation to a sacred court of the DPRK and take prompt technical measures to help the families of the DPRK side meet their children face to face in Seoul. But the Park regime flatly turned down the just demand of the DPRK, terming it a "far-fetched assertion" and the abduction a "group defection made at free will" and spouting such sheer sophism that it "cannot accept the demand for face-to-face meeting of families in view of international practice." The Park regime is putting pressure upon them to "defect" by employing all base and heinous methods such as appeasement, deception, threat and blackmail after keeping them in solitary confinement and imposing a news blackout, etc., so that they are kept away from any contact with outside. The Park group, keen on confrontation, bereft of reason, far from judging the grave consequences to be entailed by its crimes, had better drop far-fetched assertion to justify its inhuman abduction and stop at once its gangster-like act and unconditionally and immediately send back the innocent abductees. It should take prompt technical measures to enable the families of the victims to go to Seoul and meet their daughters face to face and bring them back home as unanimously demanded by them. -0-