Abductees' kin want more Japan, U.S. pressure on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Mitoji Yabunaka (far L, back), Japan's chief delegate at the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions in Beijing, briefs a group of relatives of Japanese abducted by N. Korea about the talks, in Tokyo on March 2. The group called on the Japanese and U.S. governments to increase pressure on Pyongyang for an early settlement of its claims in the abduction issue.

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