Back to paradise
A woman who has lived in Japan for the past four years has decided to return to North Korea because she missed her children and felt unwelcome in Japan.
At a press conference in Beijing, To Chu Ji claimed she had been cheated by “bad people” into leaving North Korea in 2003.
To said she was born in Japan in 1949 and given a Korean name for her father and a Japanese name for her mother. The family moved to North Korea in 1960, she said.
To said she had five children in North Korea but left them to cross the Tumen River into China where a waiting Jeep brought her to the Japanese consulate in the northeastern city of Shenyang.
Two weeks later, she was living in Matsudo, in the Chiba prefecture, where she said she led an isolated life. Telephone and letter exchanges with her children always ended in tears, she said, adding that she should go home to them instead of having them come to Japan.
North Korea claims that Japan and South Korea are abducting its citizens.
“because she missed her children”
Or maybe she heard that something would happen to them if she didn’t return….
June 28th, 2007 at 6:30 amKind of sounds like cold New Yorkers who come to California, scare everyone with their New Yorkish attitudes, then return home, convinced that Californians are all unfriendly and terrible people, when it’s really them for being so alien and not trying to loosen up.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pm:::nodding vigorously:::. Oh, yes. My girlfriend in San Diego (Ocean Beach area, man) gets her laid-backed-ness in a twister when describing New Jersey-ites coming out there and complaining about how long it takes to get stuff done around here and why the hell is there *sand* on the streets when it should obviously be on the beach and there are a lot of shadey-looking people in the neighbourhood (like Deadheads and old hippies and Mexicans).
Strangely enough. I *love* New Jerseyites… and I only found the stench of patchouli overbearing once.
Vermonters get their Yankee-ness in a twist when urban folk complain about… get this… cow crap on the roads. Apparently, a bucolic existence lifestyle doesn’t include anything overtly natural.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:26 amJapan failed this defector-refugee
June 29th, 2007 at 12:33 amHow and why did they move to NK in 1960? I would’ve thought that would be kind of hard to accomplish ne? Anyway looks like the years of brainwashing finally caught up with her, it’s something akin to the Stockholm syndrome..
As for New York, I’m here over a year now and I pretty much hate everything about it. Fortunately I asked to be transferred to San Francisco so there’s still some hope of a decent existence for me sometime soon, maybe.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:10 amSignificant numbers of ethnic Koreans from the North, who were stuck in Japan since WWII, repatriated in the early 1960s. It was all above the board and well known at the time.
June 29th, 2007 at 2:05 amSo North Korea has complaints about abducted citizens too….
June 29th, 2007 at 8:17 amAt least this woman gets to go back of her own free will.
Ahh thnx RTN, I did not know that.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:33 am