A U.S. nongovernmental organization says that North Korea has kidnapped some 180-thousand people from 12 countries since the Korean War.

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea made the claim in a report Thursday on the North’s abductions of foreigners.

The committee called for the establishment of an international alliance to confirm the whereabouts of abductees and requested that the North repatriate them.

Among the abducted people, the committee estimated that around 82-thousand are South Koreans that were kidnapped during the Korean War and ethnic Koreans from Japan.

The other countries whose nationals have been kidnapped include Japan, China, France, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands Romania, Malaysia, Singapore, Jordan and Thailand.