↑ Kirby, Michael Donald; Biserko, Sonja; Darusman, Marzuki (7 tháng 2 năm 2014). “Report of the detailed findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - A/HRC/25/CRP.1”. United Nations Human Rights Council. tr. 295–304 (Paragraph 924–964). Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 27 tháng 2 năm 2014. In September 2002, the Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro visited Pyongyang to negotiate with DPRK authorities the return of Japanese nationals suspected of having been abducted to the DPRK. The DPRK’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il admitted to Prime Minister Koizumi that DPRK agents had abducted 13 Japanese nationals (seven women and six men). The admission came after years of speculation in Japan that many Japanese nationals had been forcefully kidnapped by the DPRK.(...) Prior to this admission to Prime Minister Koizumi, the DPRK had denied all allegations of connections with disappeared persons believed to have been abducted or forcibly disappeared by the regime.
