Soga glad to get letter from family in N. Korea

Soga glad to get letter from family in N. Korea

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 who returned to Japan in October last year, speaks to reporters in her hometown of Mano on Niigata Prefecture's Sadogashima Island on Jan. 17 about a letter from her family in North Korea. (Pool photo)

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