The invitation-only zone the true story of North Korea's abduction project
"Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project fa...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Welcome to the invitation-only zone
- The Meiji moment: Japan becomes modern
- Reunited in North Korea
- Japan and Korea's "common origins"
- Adapting to North Korea
- Abduction as statecraft
- From Emperor Hirohito to Kim Il-sun
- Developing a cover story
- The repatriation project: from Japan to North Korea
- Neighbors in the invitation-only zone
- Stolen childhoods: Megumi and Takeshi
- An American in Pyongyang
- Terror in the air
- Kim's golden eggs
- A story too strange to believe
- The great leader dies, a nation starves
- Negotiating with Mr. X
- Kim and Koizumi in Pyongyang
- Returning home: from North Korea to Japan
- An extended visit
- Abduction, Inc.
- Kaoru Hasuike at home.
