who's worse than king george?

Megumi Yokota was thirteen yeas old when she was abducted, wearing her junior high school uniform, in Niigata, northern part of Japan, in 1977



some would put their money on kim jong. i was unaware this type of thing happened. how horrifying


New evidence heightens attention to North Korea's abductions
By Tim Johnson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NIIGATA, Japan - In the annals of bizarre international conduct, little can match the North Korean tactic of deploying body snatchers to Japan to capture people and whisk them away to teach Japanese and train spies in the Hermit Kingdom.
Thirteen-year-old Megumi Yokota was walking home from school, clutching a badminton racket, when she disappeared in 1977.
For more than two decades, police were at a loss over what happened.
"Nobody ever imagined that another country had come and kidnapped this girl," said Yoko Yamada, a politician in this port on the Sea of Japan.
By some counts, nearly two dozen others were snatched in the late 1970s and 1980s, often nabbed while strolling near the sea, stuffed into bags and taken to vessels offshore.
In 2002, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted the practice and apologized. But after allowing a few abductees to return to Japan, he's stonewalled on the rest, saying that the victims, including Megumi Yokota, had died or killed themselves. North Korea now says it won't talk about the abductions anymore.
But recently its assertions have crumbled fast, allowing the Japanese government and a grassroots organization to piece together evidence implicating specific North Koreans as perpetrators or collaborators of the abductions. They've also woven a surprising genetic link that's united families in Japan and South Korea to the offspring of Megumi Yokota and another kidnapping victim.
The evidence is stiffening the Japanese government's resolve toward North Korea and hardening public opinion. Officials recently plastered 200,000 posters at schools, railway stations, airports and city halls across the country. The posters say "Japan Will Not Desert (You)" in block letters and show a lone shoe on a road leading to the ocean..........