‘Abduction’ Docu to Air on PBS Tomorrow Night
[Bumped up on 6/18: It airs tonight.]
The award-winning film documents the story of Megumi Yokota, kidnapped from her home town in Japan by North Korean agents at the age of 13. Check your local listings here; for most of us in the DC area, that’s 10 p.m. tomorrow night.
Well, I rushed home from my Brazilian Jui Jitsu class to discover the film is not on WETA in Arlington. This is yet another reason why Netflix is better than PBS. I pay Netflix and I get exactly what I want.
I’m finding the same to be true on MPT. It’s something about a guy sailing about the world. I’d be pretty pissed off if it weren’t for the fact that they’re running a pretty good South Park re-run, and I’m frankly not in the mood for something depressing.
It’s on tonight in San Francisco. I plan to watch it if my wife lets me (we have only one TV in the house).
An absolutely riveting documentary. You get to see what Megumi’s parents have gone through. I won’t say more, other then you must see it and also please remind your readers about the hundreds, perhaps thousands of American POWs who vanished in North Korea and China during the Korean War.
Today, AP covered a story about Sgt. Richard G. Desautels, of Shoreham, Vt, who was taken prisoner by the Chinese in 1950 and according to sources, died in captivity in China in 1953. This admission by the Chinese raises the possibility that other American POWs who vanished were imprisoned in China.