Soga happy over proposed reunion with family in Indonesia

SADO, Japan - Former Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga smiles outside the Sado city government's Mano branch in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on July 2, a day after Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun agreed in Jakarta to arrange a reunion in Indonesia with members of her family living in North Korea. (Kyodo)

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