Last year, a Romanian magazine claimed getting recognized an excellent Romanian woman, kidnapped in the 1978, who parece Dresnok-apparently the past You.S. defector still living inside the Northern Korea.

In February 20 thing, the Bucharest-oriented Evenimentul Zilei stated that the later Doina Bumbea, a good Romanian sculptor and painter created inside 1950, are abducted when you look at the 1978 from Italy to help you North Korea.

There, she erican soldier that has discontinued their equipment from the fleeing all over the fresh greatly strengthened Demilitarized Area you to divides North and Southern area Korea.

Inside the Japanese-words memoir To be honest , a different Western defector, Charles Jenkins, relates to a lady called Doina, a beneficial Romanian abductee, just who died out-of disease inside January 1997.

Predicament off Japanese abductees

Bumbea’s more youthful brother Gabriel travelled to Japan within the April to generally meet Jenkins and hear reports away from their sibling and nephew as well as their resides in the fresh new thinking-discussed Workers’ Paradise.

“Charles Jenkins and his awesome Japanese spouse, Hitomi Soga, realized of several personal reasons for my personal brother while they nearly lived along with her along with her partner, James Dresnok. (suite…)