Posts Tagged ‘north korea’

Pro-North Korea organization raided over tax law violations

A crowd of pro-Pyongyang Zainichi Koreans gathered to protest yesterday as police raided the offices of an organization believed to have performed illegal tax accounting for Korean businesses in Tokyo:

The Tokyo police searched locations Wednesday including an affiliate of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, on suspicion of violating the certified tax accountant law, investigative sources said.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Public Security Bureau suspects that a man believed to be linked to the affiliate — a chamber of commerce and industry in Tokyo’s Shinjuku area — produced a tax declaration document on behalf of a chamber member around 2006 without qualification as a certified tax accountant, they said.

[hat tip to Darin]

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Jenkins sells rice, talks about North Korean terrorism

Former defector to North Korea Charles Robert Jenkins was in Saitama yesterday, promoting Sado Island’s agricultural products and its efforts to help reintroduce the crested ibis to Japan:

The press asked Jenkins to comment on the decision of the United States government to remove North Korea from its list of official state sponsors of terrorism. As the husband of a Japanese abductee and someone that lived as a virtual prisoner in North Korea for decades, Jenkins strongly believes that the country should not have been removed from the terrorism list.

North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter

Sakie Yokota, the mother of abductee Megumi Yokota, has announced that an English translation of her book North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter will be published and sold in America early next year:

“The abduction issue isn’t well known in the United States. I want people throughout the world to know that many abductees in North Korea are waiting to be rescued,” 72-year-old Sakie Yokota said.

Yokota plans to give copies of her book to U.S. President George W. Bush and other G8 leaders visiting Japan to attend the Hokkaido Toyako Summit, to be held later this month.

Poll: Japanese do not want North Korea removed from terror sponsorship list

A translation of the results from a poll currently being conducted on Yahoo! Japan:

It may be an unscientific online poll, but I’d say it’s a pretty good indicator of the fact that a majority of Japanese people care about the abductee issue and don’t want North Korea to be rewarded until the problem is resolved.

[hat tip to Darin]