Ex-abductee Soga urges support for rescue of detainees in N. Korea

Ex-abductee Soga urges support for rescue of detainees in N. Korea

Hitomi Soga (R), who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978 and spent decades there before being repatriated in 2002, hands out pamphlets to passersby at a signature-collecting rally in Niigata, northwestern Japan, on May 31, 2015, calling for the early rescue of other missing Japanese believed to be in that country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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