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| Japanese Red Army Faction members to leave N. Korea |
| 2002-07-11 |
| Four members of the Red Army Faction who hijacked an airliner in 1970, have expressed their wish to return from North Korea to Japan, despite the fact they will be arrested. Gettin' a little hungry up there? They said the four have filled out applications to return and a representative had presented these to authorities in Tokyo. The four had been saying since 1985 that if Japan would drop charges against them they would return home, but their sudden decision to return regardless is seen by many as them being pressured by the North, which wants to be dropped from the US terrorist support list. On March 31, 1970 nine RAF members hijacked the aircraft with 129 passengers and after a stop over in Gimpo flew to Pyongyang on April 3. Three died in North Korea, and two were arrested in Japan and Cambodia. You know you're pretty daggone far down the food chain of respectability when even North Korea doesn't want you. But it may be that they just can't afford to feed them anymore. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 "Honest! We're not a terror-supporting state! We're just a sneak naval attacking state! That's, like, a different list and everything!" |
| Posted by: Dan Hartung 2002-07-11 23:55:19 |