The issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea has been in the spotlight again recently, with Japan’s prime minister attending a memorial service for one of the abductees’ fathers, and pledging in the Diet to resolve the issue. But according to a UN report in 2014, Japan is just one of eleven countries that were targeted by the North’s abduction activity, and the full picture of its crime is still unknown. Campaigners elsewhere are having a harder time getting their voices heard.
The room frozen in time
Anocha Panchoi disappeared 42 years ago, at the age of 23. She grew up in the district of San Kamphaeng, a 40-minute drive from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, but moved to Macau for work. One day, she told her roommate that she was going out to get her hair cut. But she never returned.
Two other women went missing on the…
