The statement said:

The south Korean authorities lured and abducted a group of women employees of the DPRK to south Korea and are now committing such inhuman acts as allowing neither meeting of their families with them nor interviews by lawyers, far from sending them back home.

The south Korean authorities are keeping the abductees in solitary cells away from contact with outside and forcing "defection" upon them through all sorts of appeasement and deception, threat and intimidation.

The Korean Human Rights Association in Japan can never overlook this hideous human rights abuse as it is not only a wanton infringement upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and the human rights of the DPRK citizens but a breach of the World Declaration of Human Rights and the international convention on human rights.

We demand the south Korean authorities allow the families to meet their daughters face to face as soon as possible and send them back to the DPRK.

If the south Korean authorities persistently conceal the truth behind the allurement and abduction and illegally keep the DPRK citizens in custody, they will never be able to evade the criticism of the Korean nation and the international community.