They gathered before the south Korean embassy in Tokyo by breaking through the tight police cordon.

They bitterly condemned the south Korean authorities for unreasonably keeping a group of DPRK women in custody and forcing them to "defect" to the south after luring and abducting them in broad daylight and taking them to south Korea,

They said that intolerable is the unheard-of unethical act of daring challenge the dignified DPRK, mercilessly abusing the rights of the DPRK citizens and inciting the north-south confrontation.

Representatives of young Korean people and women read out a written protest and thrust it to the embassy.