The families of the kidnapped S. Korean hostages plead directly to the Afghan people to help in returning their loved ones safely home. The spokesman explains why the Koreans went to Afghanistan:

"They went to Afghanistan with the burden in their heart to pay back the debt of love that Korea received unconditionally from numerous countries during the war 50 years ago. They are our sons and daughters. Each one of these twenty-one people under the custody of the Taliban is a precious child to us.

These children went to act on their love beyond race, religion, and borders. Tragic war that tore Korea into pieces is not forgotten. Instead, it is still engraved in our hearts. This is why the Koreans are ready to go wherever the people under suffering may be.

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Thanks to people like those 21 men and women in hostage who helped Korea from all over the world, we are now who we are. We believe in the near future children of Afghanistan will also act in love in other needy countries like those 21 Koreans.

Please send our children so that we can meet them alive. We believe these children will become strong advocates of Afghan when they return to Korea. In that respect I say that we are the one and only country that is in a unique position to be capable of understanding Afghanistan.

Dear people of Afghanistan, though we speak different languages, we believe that our heart will speak to your heart. We believe that Korea is still Afghanistan's friend and hope. Please send our 21 children home that we may hug them once again. May we hug our children once again? Can you send us our children? Please. Please send our family back."

Please keep praying that these families may be blessed by the safe and soon return of their precious loved ones.

H/t Michelle Malkin

Crossposted at Not Ready for my Burqua

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