North Korea provided little new information regarding abducted nationals when officials contacted Pyongyang last month, according to a Japanese government
North Korea provided little new information regarding abducted nationals when officials contacted Pyongyang last month, according to a Japanese government source.
When Japanese officials made contact around when the U. S.-North Korea summit took place June 12, North Korea repeated the results of their own investigation into Japanese abducted during the 1970s and 1980s that they gave following their talks in Stockholm on May 2014, the source said Saturday.
Tokyo had repeatedly asked the United States to raise the abduction issue at the Singapore summit between U. S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but little is known about any response given by the reclusive state.
Japan officially lists 17 of its citizens as having been kidnapped by North Korean agents and suspects the North’s involvement in many more disappearances of Japanese nationals.
