Dozens of North Korean defectors caught by secret police 'vanish,' rights group says
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Destination sign of North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, is seen at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Oct. 31, 2024.
More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a Seoul-based human rights group said Thursday.
Solveig Leo, 81, former head of a large state-owned farm in the East when Germany was divided, shows a photo of herself from her youth, in the northeastern village of Banzkow, Germany, on Oct. 28, 2024. West Germany (blue) comprised the Western Allies' zones, excluding disputed Saarland (purple); the Soviet zone, East Germany (red), surrounded West Berlin (yellow). Claudia Huth, who lived in the West when Germany was divided, shows an old photo of her family and herself in her house in Egelsbach, Germany, on Oct. 31, 2024.
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This illustration taken from the government's official YouTube video shows a conveyor belt road. (Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via AP) Yuri Endo, an official at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, speaks with The Associated Press at the ministry office in Tokyo, Oct. 24, 2024.