Sin Gwang-su (spy)

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Sin.

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Shin, Gwang-soo (Korean: 신광수, Hanja: 辛光洙, Japanese: 立山富蔵 (TATEYAMA Tomizō), born June 27, 1929) is a North-Korean who was born in Shizuoka, Japan and was involved in the North Korean abductions of Japanese.

He currently has an arrest warrant issued by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau for his links into abductions.^[1]

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After World War II he moved to North Korea.

In 1973 he sneaked into Japan through Noto Peninsula. He first kidnapped a Japanese chef and stole the chef's name and identity, and moved into various Japanese cities as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. While in Japan, he was suspected of having kidnapped a Japanese citizen and to working in a North Korean organization to undermine South Korea. In 1985, he was arrested by the South Korean police, and was jailed for life. In 1999, the South Korean government decided to release him, and in 2000 he was repatriated to North Korea. He was regarded as a hero in North Korea.

While under the South Korean interrogation, he admitted that Kim Jong-Il directly ordered the abduction of several foreigners. In 2006 Japanese government officially made an extradition request of him to the North Korean Ambassador, Song l-Ho, at the Japan-North Korea meeting in Beijing. The North Korean ambassador subsequently refused, calling him a hero of North Korea.

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