After decades in N. Korea, hijackers say they want to come home

Wednesday, July 31, 2002

TOKYO -- Since hijacking a plane to Pyongyang decades ago, a band of radicals from the Red Army Faction has been treated as heroes in North Korea, where they live in sprawling apartments, with cooks, maids and have chauffeur-driven luxury sedans.

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