Talk:North Korean abductions of South Koreans

OK, I added the NPOV tag as it is quite POV to state that the abductees have been neglected under the Korean government. That is an opinion, not a fact. This article needs to be rewritten to address that. Páll 23:16, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

South Korean abductions
Is there a Wikipedia article about South Korean abductions (such as that of Isang Yun in Berlin)? Badagnani 07:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Khgg13 (talk) 10:39, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

At first, I just wanted to add a few related things for this. But now, after the works done, I found that I've gone too far. If anybody was displeased with my almost-rewriting edit, I'd say them "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it." - khgg13 -

I just read this page, and it reads completely in South Korea's favour. I'm sure nearly all of us reading this support South Korea and its struggle, but can we get a little bit more... neutrality? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.189.143.126 (talk) 18:43, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

1953 statistical almanac
> An estimated 84,532[1] South Koreans were taken to North Korea during the Korean War.

[1] is "1953 statistical almanac," which is presumably an official source from ROK. There are a number of reasons to suspect that a 1953 ROK official source is not good enough here. Can we do better? 174.93.92.163 (talk) 23:18, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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Problems with neutrality and sources
As some other commentators have suggested, this article has serious issues. I find the reliance on South Korean propaganda very problematic. The 1953 "statistic" repeatedly stated in the article has been refuted by a later fact-finding commission by South Korea in 2011 (see https://books.google.com/books?id=DT4yAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22wartime+abductees%22+%22korean+war%22&source=bl&ots=tGOD8oGIG5&sig=ACfU3U0MScKbsyyiGx6xXxJHfHEuafOXNA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1kIC5zd_iAhUmiFQKHZ5ZB1I4ChDoATAJegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=%22wartime%20abductees%22%20%22korean%20war%22&f=false - quote: "In August 2011, the Korean War Abductees Fact-Finding Commission (6.25 chonjaeng nappuk chinsang kyumyong wiwonhoe) led by the prime minister said it could confirm 55 cases", p. 80). Since even South Korea no longer claims tens of thousands of abductees, I recommend removing this figure from the article wherever it appears. And even in the case of the more recent figure, this should not be stated as fact since South Korea frequently distorts reality when it comes to North Korea. This is clear by the numbers cited in the article: in 1953, it claimed 84,000 abductees, then 2,400, and now 55. It keeps going down - perhaps the number is zero. North Korea appears to deny these allegations. I believe this entire article should be redone in a more neutral way, with less reliance on South Korean sources, especially from the government, and so I have added a POV tag.Incogreader (talk) 20:30, 3 July 2019 (UTC) In addition to what I noted above, references #3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 16, 21, 32, 35 are dead links, there are several that are incomplete citations, as well as parts that are opinion or not cited at all. I will remove the relevant parts if I can find nothing else to support the claims.
 * The source your using say 55 in addition to all the wartime abductees.....so 55 is not the number only since a a time period.-- Moxy 🍁 22:05, 12 July 2019 (UTC)