(1)Gov't gets Soga's understanding on candidate reunion sites

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L), a repatriated victim of abduction by North Korea, shakes hands with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (R) in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 30. Sugiura visited Sado for talks with Soga about candidate sites for her to meet her American husband and two daughters living in North Korea.

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