Koizumi seeking to bring home kin of abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at his office on May 21 about his visit to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, hoping to bring to Japan eight family members of five repatriated abductees and gain convincing accounts of the fates of 10 other abductees.

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