Soga worried about family in N. Korea

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese repatriated last October after being abducted to North Korea in 1978, speaks at the town hall in her hometown of Mano on Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture on April 14, six months since returning to Japan. She said she is worried about her family in North Korea. (Pool photo)

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