Last Thursday the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) issued a new report on the DPRK’s history of abducting foreign nationals. Marcus Noland, who is on the HRNK board, has posted a PDF of the report at his blog here.
Some time ago, HRNK approached me to locate some facilities in the DPRK for this report. I was sent a hand drawn map that was published in Megumi Yao‘s memoirs as well as two maps from Ahn Myong Jin‘s memoirs. I used these maps to locate the following facilities in the DPRK:
Kim Jong-il Political Military University (39.138379°, 125.749988°)
Housing for abducted Koreans and Japanese (39.161151°, 125.780365°)
Japanese Revolution Town — Old home of the Japanese Red Army (39.078108°, 125.942814°)
You can read more about these places in the HRNK report.
I had thought I was doing (mostly) original work, but we discovered last week that a Japanese researcher named Osamu Eya located these places (and more) several years ago using these maps. We both, however, independently identified the same locations.
