Soga gets photos and video of her children in N. Korea

Soga gets photos and video of her children in N. Korea

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of the five Japanese abducted by North Korea who returned to Japan last year, speaks to reporters at the town hall in Mano, Niigata Prefecture, about her impressions of a videotape and photographs of her two daughters in North Korea, which she received from a nongovernmental organization.

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