Kaoru Hasuike of Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, who was abducted by North Korea and returned to Japan 19 years ago, gave a lecture to high school students and made the younger generation interested in the abduction issue. He complained that it would lead to the realization of an early return to Japan.
Kaoru Hasuike was abducted by North Korea with his wife Yukiko on the coast of Kashiwazaki City on July 31, 1978, and returned to Japan 19 years ago in 2002.
Before the enlightenment week on the issue of human rights violations in North Korea began on the 10th, Mr. Hasuike gave a lecture to more than 190 high school students in Joetsu City who were visiting Shibata City on a school trip on the 7th.
In this, Mr. Hasuike said, "A middle-aged man approached me and said,'Please lend me a cigarette.' When I tried to light it, someone suddenly attacked me from behind and put me on a boat. I looked back on the situation at the time of the abduction.
"The abduction issue is an ongoing issue. It is important for the younger generation to remember to indicate'return'to save the victims," he said. He complained that receiving the victim would lead to the victim's return to Japan as soon as possible.
One of the boys said, "I was asked to talk about the abduction problem that I learned in morals, and I became more interested in it. I would like to see it as our own problem and think about ways to solve it." I did.
Kaoru Hasuike "The nuclear and missile issues obscure the abduction issue."
After finishing the lecture in Shibata City, Kaoru Hasuike told reporters, "The issue of Japan and North Korea has been incorporated into the US-North Korea relations, and the nuclear and missile issues have obscured the abduction issue. The Japanese government has to create something that can be proposed to the North Korean side, rather than saying "I will meet unconditionally" to North Korean general secretary Kim Jung-eun. "