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拉致に関するニュージーランド政府の見解 投稿者：Dr Han-Seung YOON
投稿日：12月25日(水)09時13分02秒
今年１０月に日本に学会出張して一番ショックだったのは北朝鮮の拉致問題でした。５人が飛行機のタラップを降りて、万感胸に迫り家族と抱き合う様をテレビで見て小生も涙した。拉致が確実に分かっている不明者のうち何と８人もの人達が死んでいるという衝撃的な事実。無辜の人達を拉致するという北朝鮮の国家犯罪を憎むまざるをえない。ニュージーランド（ＮＺ）に帰国して、ＫＥＤＯにＮＺが資金を拠出していることを知った。小生に出来る事は、この拉致の事実と非道さをＮＺ政府に知らせる事ではないかと思い、以下の文章をＮＺの現外務大臣であるゴフ氏にメールした。１１月２１日に彼からメールによる返事があり、有権者の疑念に真摯に答える態度に敬服した。日本の政治家であったらこのような一般の人達の質問にどう反応したであろうかと考えざるを得ない。思い切ってその小生の質問と彼の真摯な返事の全文を載せたいと思う。
最初は小生のメールです。
Dear Mr Goff
Are you aware that North Korea abducted approximately 80 Japanese between 1960 - 1985 or so? North Korean agents approached to Japan coast by boats or submarines and kidnapped ordinary Japanese and took them to North Korea. After continuous denial for nearly 25 years, Kim recently admitted that North Korea was responsible for kidnapping. Among 13 Japanese whom Japanese Police had solid evidence that North Korea had kidnapped, 8 were already dead while 5 were alive. We were very shocked to hear this amazingly high mortality among abductees while they were relatively young. There was a rumour some of them were shot dead in front of other Japanese because they tried to get contact with their families in Japan. All Japanese angered with this brutal crime committed by North Korea that was, in fact, a capital crime. Are you aware that those 5 alive Japanese abductees have been back to Japan recently? However, North Korea does not allow their children to go to Japan to meet their parents.
NZ should not support North Korea. Kim and his own people do anything to survive and to maintain his regime. NZ should join with other international countries to give more pressure to Kim and North Korea. That is an only way to release North Korean people and to finish Kim's dynasty. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Han-Seung YOON
University of Otago
次に外務大臣の返事です。
Dear Dr Yoon
Thank you for your email to me of 12 November. Your message raises issues that are very much in the sights of the international community at present. When you wrote I was in fact in Seoul, to meet with senior South Korean Government representatives and attend a Community of Democracies Ministerial meeting.
The New Zealand Government has also closely monitor developments concerning the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents in the past. Kim Jong-il's admission during a visit to Pyongyang by Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi that Japanese had been abducted, represented an important first step forward towards full discussion of these illegal incidents. I particularly noted Kim Jong-il's undertaking, in a joint statement issued by the two leaders on 17 September, that North Korea "would take appropriate measures so that these regrettable incidents, that took place under the abnormal bilateral relationship, would never happen again in future". We were saddened to hear reports of the deaths of some of the abductees. New Zealand has encouraged both Governments to continue constructive engagement to resolve this and other outstanding issues between them, as a further step towards greater stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
Yours sincerely
Hon Phil Goff
Minister of Foreign Affairs And Trade
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