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 p...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2016]
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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.