Top South Korean and U.S. officials have called on North Korea to repatriate five high school students abducted from coastal islands, unveiling a new memorial on Friday at the location where DPRK agents kidnapped a 15-year-old boy nearly a half-century ago.

Unification minister Kim Young-ho made the demand during the dedication ceremony for the memorial to Kim Young-nam, who was abducted in 1977.

“Articles 7 and 9 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted unanimously by the U.N. General Assembly, declare that all children have the right to be raised by their parents and to live