N. Korea abduction issue

N. Korea abduction issue

Kenichi Ichikawa (R) hands out a flier to a driver in the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Hioki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 12, 2022, the date his younger brother Shuichi, one of the Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea, went missing near a local beach 44 years ago.

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