N. Korea rejects Japan's conclusion on Yokota husband

N. Korea rejects Japan's conclusion on Yokota husband

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador in charge of diplomatic normalization talks with Japan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News and its member news organizations in Pyongyang on April 13. Ho rejected Japan's DNA analysis-based conclusion that the husband of a Japanese abducted by North Korea, Megumi Yokota, is most likely a South Korean the North also kidnapped, calling it an attempt to bring the South into a bitter bilateral dispute. (Kyodo)

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