Two North Korean defectors now have warned that information provided by the Kim Jong Un regime should not be trusted, amid stalled negotiations with Pyongyang over its investigation into the fate of Japanese abductees.
A survivor of the North Korean prison camp system named Cheol Hwan Kang, and a former spy dispatched to the South as part of the North's extensive espionage effort who for his own safety was identified only as Mr. K, spoke at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday. Their comments touched on the Japanese abductees situation, as well as the ongoing human rights violations in their reclusive native country.
Based on his experience as a former intelligence agent, Mr. K said that North Korea's assertion that all unaccounted-for Japanese abductees had died was false.