Not only the 11 M’sians, but another 4 M’sians & 1 Singaporean must be allowed to return home too

MCA Youth reiterates our federal government’s call to the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to guarantee the safety of the 9 Malaysian diplomats and their dependents, as well as the 2 Malaysian citizens who are in Pyongyang as part of the United National Food Aid Programme and to allow them to leave the country immediately unhindered.

We appeal to the North Korean government to have compassion and humanity, and not use these 11 Malaysians as bargaining chips for whatever issues it holds against Malaysia. Be also informed that the diplomats were posted to Pyongyang as part of their assignments as foreign service officers, while the other 2 Malaysians were attending a United Nations course related to the World Food Programme (WFP), which in turn would be greatly beneficial towards DPRK in alleviating hunger.

While the identities of the 11 Malaysians forcibly stranded in DPRK are known, MCA Youth and the MCA Overseas Liaison Bureau wishes to rekindle an isolated incident which occurred in August 1978 whereby 4 Malaysian women and a Singaporean in August 1978 had been working with a social escort company in Singapore and were last seen at a celebration aboard a ship. They never returned after boarding the vessel which sailed away.

The four Malaysian women who disappeared without a trace until now are Yeng Yoke Fun, 22, Yap Me Leng, 22, Seetoh Tai Thim, 19 and Margaret Ong Guat Choo, 19, while the Singaporean was Diana Ng Kum Yim, 24.

US Army Defector Charles Robert Jenkins who lived in North Korea for 40 years before being allowed to leave and settle in Japan, the home of his wife and another abductee by DPRK, reportedly said that he saw a picture of Yeng Yoke Fun, and remembered her as working in an amusement park shop in 1980 or 1981 (Bernama, 6 Mar 2017).

How could Jenkins, a country boy who has never stepped foot outside USA prior to the Korean War, and who has never travelled apart for the Republic of Korea for his military posting prior to his defection, Indonesia and Japan after his release possibly even have heard of Malaysia and identified the facial appearance of Yoke Fun by remembering her because she had a mole near her left eye and naming her as Ying Tai? (Her family said Ying Tai was her real name [The China Post, 17 Dec 2006 & The Sun, 19 Dec 2005]) 

A South Korean actress Choi Eun Hee whom DPRK operatives had abducted from Hong Kong had likewise reported said that she heard from a woman that a Malaysian couple lived in a separate residence in Pyongyang (Bernama, 6 Mar 2017).

Back in 2005, the families of the 4 women had approached MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Dato’ Seri Michael Chong to help obtain information on their whereabouts and to bring them home.

In this regard, MCA Youth and the MCA Overseas Liaison Bureau strongly appeals for this case to be reopened to obtain latest information possible on the 4 Malaysian and 1 Singaporean women and to bring them 5 plus the 11 known Malaysians home.

Senator Datuk Chong Sin Woon
MCA Youth Chairman
MCA Overseas Liaison Bureau Chairman
 

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