The United Nations Commission on Human Rights investigated the abductees issue, as part of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [REF].
According to the Committee for Democratisation of North Korea (CDNK), North Korean agents are also believed to have abducted roughly 200 citizens of the People's Republic of China from the late 1990s onwards, mostly ethnic Koreans from frontier towns in northeast China who provided aid to North Korean defectors.