S. Korea Urges Immediate Release of 6 Nationals Wrongfully Detained in N. Korea l KBS WORLD

South Korea has urged the fast launch of six nationals wrongfully detained in North Korea at a gathering of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention(WGAD) in Geneva. 

South Korean Ambassador to Geneva Yun Seong-deok stated on Tuesday that Seoul expresses deep concern over the intense human rights violations by North Korea. 

Missionaries Choi Choon-gil, Kim Guk-gi and Kim Jong-uk had been charged with conspiracy to commit subversion and detained by the North between 2013 and 2014. Based mostly in China’s Dandong area, all three labored on aid efforts for North Koreans.

The ambassador stated that it has been greater than ten years because the detainment of Choi and Kim Guk-gi whereas Friday will mark four-thousand days since Kim Jong-uk was detained. 

Yun additionally known as for the fast decision of abductees and Korean Battle prisoners of warfare held by the North and  raised concern over the arbitrary detention of defectors who’re being forcibly repatriated to the North. 

The arbitrary detention by North Korea shall be a topic of evaluation by the United Nations in November. 

It will likely be a part of the Human Rights Council’s Common Periodic Evaluate, which is a human rights peer evaluation of UN member states each 4 and a half years.