Hitomi Soga talks about N. Korea abduction issue

Hitomi Soga, one of the five Japanese abductees repatriated from North Korea in 2002, speaks to junior high school students in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on April 26, 2022. Soga voiced concern that the abduction issue might be forgotten as a thing of the past.

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