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Japan and North Korea have tentatively Japanese Prime Minister \u201cAs a result of the The KCNA report noted that The word “simultaneously” refers to the fact that, KCNA revealed, Japan has The committee in question is to North Korea was represented <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Japan and North Korea have tentatively agreed to reopen an investigation into the whereabouts of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents more than thirty years ago. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an announcement this afternoon, following three days of bilateral talks held in Stockholm from May 26th to 28th. The North Korean state news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":27285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nagreed to reopen an investigation into the whereabouts of Japanese citizens
\nabducted by North Korean agents more than thirty years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nShinzo Abe made an announcement this afternoon, following three days of
\nbilateral talks held in Stockholm from May 26th<\/font> to 28th<\/font>.
\nThe North Korean state news agency KCNA also published an article on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJapan-North Korea talks, the North Korean side promised to the Japanese side
\nthat it will make a comprehensive and overall investigation into all the
\nJapanese, including abduction victims and missing people whose possibility of
\nbeing abducted cannot be ruled out,” Prime Minister Abe told reporters. “Our
\nmission will never end until the day comes when families of all abduction
\nvictims are able to embrace their children with their own arms.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nPyongyang has indeed \u201cagreed to simultaneously conduct a comprehensive survey of all
\nJapanese including the remains and graves of Japanese, remaining Japanese,
\nJapanese spouses, victims of abduction and missing persons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nconsented to \u201clift restrictions on visits of persons, lift special measure of
\nrestrictions taken against [North Korea] regarding money remittances and money
\ncarried by visitors, and lift the embargo on the entry of North Korea-flagged
\nships with a humanitarian mission into Japanese ports from the point of time
\nthat [North Korea] sets up a \u2018special investigation committee\u2019 for the comprehensive
\nsurvey and starts it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbe charged with conducting \u201ca survey of all Japanese, including the issue of
\nthe remains of the Japanese who died in the territory of [North Korea] before
\nand after the year 1945 and the remaining Japanese, Japanese spouses, victims
\nof abduction and missing Japanese.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nat the talks by Ambassador of the Foreign Ministry Song Il Ho, while the Japanese
\ndelegation was led by Foreign Ministry official Junichi Ihara.