Japan to push North Korea on abductions
Amid cries of outrage in the media, Japan today said it will push North Korea to allow several people abducted by North Korean spies decades ago to return home as soon as possible and to conduct a thorough investigation into why they were taken.
Reversing years of angry denials, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il yesterday admitted in a summit with Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that the spies had abducted a dozen or so Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s.
