Abductees' kin waiting for missing a year after summit

Abductees' kin waiting for missing a year after summit

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted in 1977 at the age of 13 and was reported by the North to have died, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 17, exactly one year after the historic Japan-North Korea summit talks. ''There has been no progress at all since Prime Minister (Junichiro) Koizumi visited North Korea and five of the abductees returned,'' Yokota said.

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