Japan abduction minister calls for N. Korea's response

Japan abduction minister calls for N. Korea's response

GENEVA, Switzerland - Eriko Yamatani, Japan's state minister in charge of the abduction issue, says in her keynote speech at an international symposium at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 10, 2014, that North Korea must take serious and concrete steps to solve its past abductions of Japanese nationals while holding a picture of Megumi Yokota, one of the Japanese abductees. (Kyodo)

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