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By on June 26th, 2009 at 11:42 am

Court Rules that Korean War Abductees Not Owed Compensation

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Family members of South Korean citizens abducted by North Korea a given government compensation, but the Korean Constitutional Court has ruled that those abducted during the Korean War are not due compensation:

The Constitutional Court has allowed the exclusion of those abducted by North Korea during the Korean War from the compensation law for abductees.

Seven of nine judges on Friday rejected a petition submitted by a son of Kim Young-dong, who was a member of the Constituent Assembly in 1948.

The son claimed in the petition that the exclusion is a violation of the constitutional right to equality, since his father was abducted by the North during the Korean War that began in 1950.

The judges said in their ruling that even if the relevant compensation law includes those abducted by the North during the war, it is difficult to conduct a proper investigation into the case, given the advance of time and a lack of clear criteria to determine if Kim was actually abducted.  [KBS Global]

I can actually understand why the court ruled like this because it would be impossible to know the exact circumstances of how the family member was taken to North Korea.  Maybe the personal freely decided to stay there?  How do you determine this?  It is impossible and that is why the court ruled the way it did.

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