《母の思い出の時計が今も動いているように、母も元気でいてほしい》
■お母さんの時計
みなさん、こんにちは。
今日は連休の中日ということで、家でゆっくりと過ごされたいのに集会のために足を運んでいただき、心より感謝しています。ありがとうございます。
私と母が拉致されて今年で４０年という月日が過ぎてしまいました。４０年間母親に会えないことを考えてもいなかったので、本当にさみしくて、さみしくてなりません。
今日は、母親と拉致をされる１年半くらい前に、母親から買ってもらった時計と一緒に来ました。皆さん見えますでしょうか。北朝鮮にいる時にも、この時計が何度か止まってしまいました。その時には、母はどうなっているんだろうなあという気持ちで、さみしさの中で暮らしていました。
１６年前に日本に帰国して、止まっていた時計も今このように無事に動いています。その後はずっと今日までしっかりと動いています。絶対に母が今も元気で、日本に帰ってくることを願って、一生懸命に頑張っています。
■普通の家族の一家団欒を返せ！
普通の家で、皆さんが毎日毎日、ご家族と一緒に食事をして、一緒に笑って、一緒に泣いて、本当に皆さんが普段していることが、４０年間もの間私は一度もすることができていません。
これからも絶対に諦めずに、皆様方と一緒に、母の帰国そして拉致被害者全員の帰国のために、一生懸命頑張っていきたいと思いますので、これからも宜しくお願いいたします。
■曽我ミヨシさんのご家族のメッセージ
http://www.rachi.go.jp/jp/message/movie_3.html
■曽我ミヨシさんのご家族のメッセージ（英語版）
http://www.rachi.go.jp/en/shisei/keihatsu/videomessage_3en.html
■政府拉致問題ＨＰ
■警察庁ＨＰ
■救う会全国協議会ＨＰ
■特定失踪者問題調査会ＨＰ
◆昭和５３（１９７８）年８月１２日
母娘拉致容疑事案
被害者：曽我ひとみさん（拉致被害時１９歳）
被害者：曽我ミヨシさん（拉致被害時４６歳）
「２人で買い物に行く」と言って出かけて以来失踪。
ひとみさんは平成１４年１０月日本に帰国。
ひとみさんの夫（ジェンキンス氏＝アメリカ人）と２人の娘も平成１６年７月に渡日・帰国。
北朝鮮側は、曽我ミヨシさんは北朝鮮に入境していないとしている。
捜査当局は、拉致実行犯である北朝鮮工作員・通称キム・ミョンスクについて、平成１８年１１月に逮捕状の発付を得て国際手配するとともに、政府として北朝鮮側に身柄の引渡しを要求している。
■新潟県警ＨＰ
http://www.police.pref.niigata.jp/
［August 12, 1978: Mother and daughter abducted］
Abductees: Hitomi Soga (19, female, Niigata Prefecture), Miyoshi Soga (46, female, Niigata Prefecture)
Disappeared after saying they were going shopping.
Hitomi Soga returned to Japan in October 2002. Her husband (Charles Robert Jenkins, a US citizen) and two daughters arrived in Japan in July 2004.
North Korea asserts that Miyoshi Soga never entered North Korean territory. The Japanese authorities issued an arrest warrant in November 2006 for a person known as Kim Myong-Suk, a North Korean agent believed to be responsible for the abductions, and listed her with Interpol. The GoJ demands that North Korea extradite her to Japan.
【ＳＥＡ ＯＦ ＭＥＲＣＹ】
The book named “Sea of Mercy”
13-year- old junior high school student Takeshi Terakoshi was abducted in May 1963.
He went fishing with his two uncle, Shoji and Soto-o Terakoshi. The fishingboat named Kiyomaru left for the fishing ground nearby Noto island, Ishikawa prefecture.
Kiyomaru encountered North Korean spy vessel. Spies were afraid of detection.
Soto-o and Takeshi were abducted and carried to Chong-jin city. Shoji was considered to be killed at the site.
Families, fellow fishermen and coast guard searched the area, but they could find only Kiyomaru and Takeshi’s school uniform.
They thought 3 persons were in disress and died. Funeral service was held.24 Years were passed.
In 1987, Soto-o’s sister received the letter from Soto-o and surprised.
Soto-o wrote “Takeshi and I am living in Gusong, North Korea”.
Takeshi’s father and mother visited to North Korea in1988 and met with Soto-o and Takeshi.
But they couldn’t say how they carried to North Korea because NK officials watched them.
North Korea made the story of their shipwreck accident and lifesaving.
Since then, Takeshi’s parents visited to him a lot of times but Takeshi and his family members cannot say that Takeshi and his uncles were abducted.
In 1997, Megumi Yokota case was appeared in the media and the national congress. Terakoshi’s case was also observed as an abduction case. But “he” denied that he was abducted and praised North Korea and the Kim family.
In December 2001, Pyongyang publishing company published a book named “Sea of Mercy”.
The author is Kim Myong-ho, Takeshi’s Korean name.
In that book, Takeshi wrote that they are not the abduction victims but happily living in North Korea after they ware saved. Moreover “he" denied other abduction case such as Megumi Yokota and Yaeko Taguchi in this book.
Nine months later, Kim Jong-il admitted and appologized for the abduction activities.
But North Korea still denies Terakoshi’s case as abduction and Takeshi and his family cannot say he was abduction victim because Takeshi himself is a hostage.
“Sea of Mercy”, the title is a symbol of North Korean regime.
