N. Korea suggests 1 missing Japanese alive, 2 dead

KOBE, Japan - Akihiro Arimoto (L) and his wife Kayoko speak to reporters on suggestion by North Korea that one Japanese out of 11 Tokyo believes were abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s is still alive but two others are dead. A well-informed source said March 23 that their daughter, Keiko Arimoto, believed to have been abducted in Europe and taken to North Korea in 1983 at age 23, is still alive.

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