Abductees' kin lobby U.S. on abduction issue

Abductees' kin lobby U.S. on abduction issue

TOKYO, Aug. 21 Kyodo - Shigeru Yokota (L), the father of Megumi Yokota who was abducted in 1977 at age 13 to North Korea, shakes hands with Richard Christenson, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, prior to their meeting Aug. 21. Yokota urged Christenson to press Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue at upcoming six-nation talks on the North's nuclear arms program in Beijing.

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