TOKYO, March 2 Kyodo Three towar...

TOKYO, March 2 Kyodo

Three toward the south Korean men who were abducted from North Korea decades ago and reverted to their homeland by 2003 called upon the Japanese public Tuesday for help in trying to pres the southerly Korean government to provide them with financial support.

single in kind of the men, Lee Jae Keyn 65 said at a parliamentary hearing that he saw more than 20 the community he believes were Japanese abductees in the early 1970 in Pyongyang.

The other couple South Koreans are Kim Byeong Do, 51 and Jin Jeng Pal, 63

The three said they were abducted forward separate occasions by North Korean agents or soldiers from boats they boarded for a piece of work in the Yellow Sea or in waters west of the Korean Peninsula from 1967 to 1973

They separately turn backed to South Korea from 2000 to 2003 helped according to a South Korean group of supporters for abductees and their relatives.

Speaking at a pres colloquy at the Diet on Tuesday, the three said they can barely scrape disclosed a living and that none has a permanent job

''I trustful longing the Japanese media urge the southward Korean government to make a special law (aimed at helping former abductees),'' Jin said.

to leeward told a hearing of the House of Representatives subcommittee in succession North Korean issues that he witnessed six or seven apparent Japanese at a house of entertainment in Pyongyang during the of recent origin Year's holidays each year from 1971 to 1973

to leeward said he understands some Japanese words and that he deliberation the people he saw in the public-house spoke Japanese. He said he saw a certain of the people play pond in the hotel.

to leeward said that at the time, he was a bookish man at a special political drill to train agents, and that teachers took him and other southward Koreans to the hotel for holidays.

The family he thought were Japanese followed the same schedule as southern Korean students in the tavern which made him think the race had also been kidnapped, he said.

The three men were invited to Japan at the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

The Japanese direction has put 15 people onward its official list of victims of abductions in the late 1970 and early 1980 clusters supporting the victims and their relatives say many other nation should be on the list.

Pyongyang has acknowledged 13 Japanese were abducted to North Korea and allowed five to go [i]or[/i] come back to Japan in 2002. It said eight others died and that brace other people Japan has upon its list of abductees had not recorded North Korea.

Choi Sung Yong who heads the toward the south Korean group helping abductees, appeared pessimistic about the possibility that Japanese abductees, including those who are not forward the formal list of victims, will be accounted for in the near future

''It appear to bes difficult to rescue Japanese abductees compared with southerly Korean abductees because they are probably closely watched'' by means of North Korean authorities, Choi said, indicating the issue of Japanese abductees is highly political to North Korea.

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