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Dec.13, 1964 - Sent 1 mil. Signatures to UN
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Sent one million signatures to the UN
Will be introduced to Human Rights Committee in March 1965
Appealed for repatriation of abductees
P.1, Chosun Daily, Dec. 13, 1964


¡¼Sent to UN Headquarters on the 11th/ AP = Joint Report¡½
Written by Hubert J. Erb

A petition signed by more than one million Koreans for the repatriation of tens of thousands of South Korean abductees detained in North Korea was sent to the UN on the 11th. Bang U-yeong, CEO of Chosun Daily, submitted this petition to Doctor John P. Humphrey, the Director of the UN Human Rights Committee.

Along with Bang, Kim Yong-sik, the Korean Ambassador to the UN, was also there. Doctor Humphrey received the 102 pages of 1,019,080 signatures, as a proxy for U Thant UN Secretary General, who was hospitalized due to a stomach disorder.
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