Soga hopes for early reunion with her family

NIIGATA, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five abductees to North Korea, speaks to reporters at a hospital in Niigata on Oct. 31 about the just-ended two-day normalization talks between Japan and North Korea in Kuala Lumpur. Soga, whose American husband and two daughters live in North Korea, said, ''It is nothing but regrettable that an early reunion with my family has been put off further.'' (Pool photo)

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