North Korea Makes Counter Accusation

I must be cruel, because I do not believe this sob story

BEIJING – A woman who fled North Korea after living there for 43 years returned to the communist country Tuesday following nearly four years in Japan, saying she missed her children and found Japanese society unwelcoming.

To Chu Ji arrived in Pyongyang and was greeted by her family, who brought her a bouquet of flowers and embraced her, weeping.

Before leaving, To spoke at a rare news conference at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, saying she had been cheated by “bad people” into leaving North Korea in 2003.

She gave few details during the 20-minute session in which she kept her eyes on her hands. Reporters were not allowed to ask questions.

The motives behind the news conference were not clear, although it comes amid a dispute over North Korea’s alleged abduction of 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and ’80s that has blocked talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang on normalizing relations.

Further down the article, it said she began to sing. That is a sign that the circumstances are different from the one she is telling. I do not doubt that she may be homesick, but I cannot believe that her children were not being punished, as family members of defectors often are. Plus, what better way to deflect accusations of abduction better than making one yourself.

So for many reason, the lack of evidence most evident, I do not believe her.
Update: DailyNK has the back story. No, she was not abducted, but homesickness was part of the reason she left. And who knows how the North Koreans persuaded her to leave.