Yokotas meet reporters after end of Japan-N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (R) and his wife Sakie attend a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 30 after Japan and North Korea ended two days of normalization talks in Kuala Lumpur without a hint of tangible progress on the issue of abductions of Japanese nationals by the North. Their daughter Megumi is one of the Japanese nationals North Korea abducted and now lists as dead.

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