[USFK Forums] Letter from Prof. Tetsuzo Nakano

[C. Y. Lee]

[Uploaded by C. Y. Lee on Friday, December 23, 2005] [color=DarkRed] Here is a personal letter from Professor Emeritus Tetsuzo Nakano of Sapporo Gakuin University, calling for renewing cooperation on the abduction issues:
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-----Original Message-----
From: "中野　徹三" <tettin-midst-feld@m6.dion.ne.jp>
Sent: 2005-12-22 오후 3:03:19
To: "mrcylee@korea.com" <mrcylee@korea.com>
Subject: How are you, Mr. Lee?



Dear Mr. Lee, how are you and your families now?

First I would beg your pardon for my long silence from all my
heart. Always I have been used to think of you and the possible
conversations with you, whenever I read some articles about the
abductees of our two nations by North Korea or about
the anxious relations of our two countries at present. But I could
not send my mail to you. Perhaps it is partly because
I had to be at grips with other problems -----the one was the
study of the constitution (draft) of European Union-----we
Japanese are now facing with problem of revision of constitution.
But it seems to me it is mainly because I was somewhat
discouraged in the future of our movement. Yes, Mr. Koizumi
visited Pyongyang last year and some children of Japanese
abductees could come to their parents , also the American husband
of Mrs Hiromi Soga , and it is naturally our pleasure.
But all are inside what Kim Jong Il had scheduled at first.
He plunders even by selling his sacrifices!
Today's situations of abductees of our two nations are essentially
not better than 2 years ago, no, we should even say, worse .
Japanese government has no intention to resolve this grave infringe on
human rights truly , it has no will to use some lawful
pressures upon the criminals in Pyongyang, it has even not yet
ratified the ICC -treaty!
Korean government has also no will to save victims of their own
nation, prevented with their unhappy 'sunshine' illusion to the evil
king of dark empire.
But I found ---through crosswalk. com---a major conference on North
Korean human rights was held in Seoul between 8. -10.
this month. This article says , this is the first international event
of its kind in the country.
December 8. is the day on which our country began that unhappy war 61
years ago, yes, this is a day of " Remember Pearl Harbor!"
also for us Japanese. And December 10. is Human Rights day of UN.
Last month U.N.Assembly adopted a resolution on widespread
and grave violations of human rights in North Korea.
U.S. special envoy on North Korean human rights, Mr Jay Lefkowitz, and
Mrs Fumiko Saiga, Japan's newly appointed envoy on
North Korean human rights , had taken part in Seoul's conference ,
though Mr Cho Young-hwang,South Korean foreign minister
had turned down to attend----so informed the article.
I think ,you had surely attended. If so, please write about the
conference or the situations related to the abduction problem in
your country to me, I would let them know to Japanese citizens.
Japanese newspapers ---including "the Asahi"---do not report of
this conference almost at all !
Our book has been still generally ignored , though some human rights
activists had expressed their agreements .
But I have recently decided, not to give up to cry, even in the
wilds. World is moving, though it goes very slowly.
Dear Mr Lee,
let's reopen our co-operation, please!

It's now before Christmas.

Dear Mr. Lee,

I wish you and your
families

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and

A HAPPY NEW YEAR
2006

particularly

THE HEALTH OF YOU
ALL


Sincerely Yours,

Tetsuzo Nakano


(Please note my mail-address has
changed.)